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1. Stefan Sperling (stsp@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Apr-2018 16:50:37 EDT Stefan Sperling

   @seanl OK. so the answer to stat overhead seems to be: Don't use stat, use something like inotify or kqueue, i.e. file change detection driven by filesystem events reported to userspace.

   1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Apr-2018 18:19:23 EDT clacke

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      @stsp @seanl Just like what build systems for huge projects are doing these days (buck, pants, bazel). Makes sense that it would apply to VCSes too.