What is this (first time setup) the compiler started doing on upstream?

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I noticed that the upstream builds started doing a ‘compiling maker (first time setup)’ it takes more time than the previous ones ig.

  1. what is this new (first time setup)?
  2. will it take a long time in CI/CD cuse I think they optimize resources usage in the them?
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There was a pretty short devlog about this: Devlog ⚡ Zig Programming Language

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if you use something like setup-zig, it will be cached.

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Also, if you’re not saving Zig caches across runs for some reason, you can set ZIG_DEBUG_MAKER=1.

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