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Microsoft Build Accelerator

14 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 4 stories, 10 comments · first 2018-12-14 · latest 2026-09-11

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  1. Windows is built using BuildXL, a very different build system from MSbuild used in Visual Studio: https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL/blob/main/Documentation... > BuildXL has also been proven to scale to large codebases (e.g.,…
    comment by miffy900 · 2026-09-11 · in Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
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    BuildXL Sandboxing
    story by todsacerdoti · 2025-11-06 · 0 comments
  3. …up with a way to scale up build toolchains with BuildXL[0] Doesn't seem fully baked yet though [0]: https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL
    comment by no_wizard · 2023-09-12 · in We built the fastest CI and it failed
  4. …[1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/5136#issuecomment... [2] https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL/blob/master/Documentati... [3] https://github.com/microsoft/Detours/wiki [4] https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_package_manager#
    comment by colatkinson · 2022-08-07 · in Using Landlock to Sandbox GNU Make
  5. …the exported functions table!), but it is undocumented... There's some demos that using this API https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL/blob/master/Public/Src/...
    comment by CodeHz · 2020-11-11 · in Firejail – Sandbox Linux Applications
  6. …to buy a new build lab. Incremental rebuilds were notoriously flaky, at least in the days before https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL . The most common dev loop that I saw was to install a recent dogfood build (so APIs and binary…
    comment by mdriley · 2020-10-01 · in Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS
  7. …keeps build dependencies well isolated. Even then the system you use can leak into the build. 1. https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL
    comment by dtrailin · 2020-05-21 · in What Is Nix?
  8. …inherent performance differences you would find in something "Windows first" vs "Linux/MacOS first" https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL
    comment by NickGerleman · 2019-10-29 · in Evaluating Bazel for building Firefox
  9. How does bazel compare to https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/blob/master/README.md And https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL ?
    comment by The_rationalist · 2019-10-10 · in Bazel Release 1.0
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    Microsoft Build Accelerator
    story by ingve · 2019-09-05 · 0 comments
  11. …has a system used for this that is heavily used internally that was recently open sourced: https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL/blob/master/README.md
    comment by NickGerleman · 2019-09-02 · in An introduction to deterministic builds with C/C++
  12. The why and how of this can be found here : https://github.com/Microsoft/BuildXL/blob/master/Documentati... Seems what drove this was a 90 build times of 90 hours for and end to end build of Office. What I can gather this has a means of…
    comment by mikerg87 · 2019-05-01 · in Microsoft Build Accelerator – open-source build engine for large systems
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    Microsoft Build Accelerator – open-source build engine for large systems
    story by shanselman · 2019-04-30 · 41 comments
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    Microsoft Build Accelerator
    story by exwiki · 2018-12-14 · 0 comments