Comment on #20832 Troubleshooting a (very) slow pex build Discussion answered by jsirois Ok, bleeding edge indeed: #20670 @jake-normal my piece here is done unless you have further questions. It appears to be the short answer is you either need to setup caching of

~/.cache/pants/named_caches/pex_root

(<- Do your own homework here, I have not used Pants in ~1 year and location may have changed) or else you need to hop on the Pants dev release train to Pick up @huonw's patch asap. pantsbuild/pants