Speed up CI with build caching and parallel jobs - #3486
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What problem does this PR solve?
Issue Number: resolve
Problem Summary:
CI recompiles the same sources, downloads the same Bazel dependencies, and
runs the Make and CMake configurations serially on every run, making build
validation unnecessarily slow.
What is changed and the side effects?
Changed:
matrix jobs.
matrix jobs.
jobs.
transaction.
prefixes cannot select another job's cache.
still reusing cached compilation actions.
Measured results:
baseline average to 21:43 (43.4%). Total runner time across the measured
Linux jobs fell from 270:09 to 143:45 (46.8%).
serial baseline averages of 16:09 and 18:38. Their total runner times were
15:30 and 14:37, respectively.
compared with serial baseline averages of 19:32 and 20:39.
16:36-20:22, reductions of 35.0%-49.8% from their baseline averages. Every
test still executed; only downloads and compilation actions were reused.
baseline average to 9:47 (65.6%).
The baseline is the average of 10 successful runs. The post-change values are
from the latest successful run, so they represent the current configuration
rather than a multi-run post-change average.
Side effects:
Performance effects: Subsequent CI runs can reuse compiler outputs and Bazel
downloads/build outputs. Ccache is bounded to 2 GiB. Bazel repository caches
are shared per platform, while build caches remain separated by job. Bazel
tests always execute; only their compilation actions remain cacheable.
Breaking backward compatibility: None.
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