Ask HN: How do you deal with long compile times?

  • Writing documentation of the changes that were made, Writing test cases for the code that I just added, Writing a detailed commit message for the changes...

    ...and trying to figure out if the compile time can be reduced!

  • Focus is not usually the problem here. It's actually context-switch.

    Avoid any task that has high context-switch cost.

  • Go for a walk.