Hey Pants Team, wanted to share amazing news. Upgrading to

2.17.0rc1

gave us a 94% improvement in our cache generation time! It previously took ~3hours and now it runs <15mins. It has been noticeably faster, loving these performance improvements!

Any thoughts on why this is? WHat specific operation is being measured?

it's the rust parser! Parser all our python dependencies was way too slow

That’s a well deserved bowtie to you @bitter-ability-32190 😄

next performance improvement that I believe will help our massive use case is improving `Find targets from input specs`and

Map all targets to their dependents

as take ~5mins with no pantsd in CI. I believe this github issue is related https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/18911

I'm bathing in this chart

you did amazing work absolutely massive impact for our monorepo

Hehe https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/18961 will mean we'll likely invalidate that cache before the official release. But that'll be one-time

on 2.17.0 we actually can run pants in CI without cache, it takes longer but still useable. Our next bottleneck is dependency calculation is slow with warm cache and no pantsd