How do you deal with long compile times?

Question

What do you spend your time on while something is building for an hour or more?I end up doing reviews and triaging issues, but of course 30 minutes or longer to wait on a compile breaks focus.

laydn · Accepted Answer

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!

mryalamanchi · Answer

Focus is not usually the problem here. It's actually context-switch.Avoid any task that has high context-switch cost.

thanatos519 · Answer

Go for a walk.

How do you deal with long compile times?

What do you spend your time on while something is building for an hour or more?
I end up doing reviews and triaging issues, but of course 30 minutes or longer to wait on a compile breaks focus.

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.