My build finished in 0 seconds and thirteen test suites passed. They had run yesterday's binary.

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Then thirteen control suites, every one green, and each one run twice with byte-identical output. The build tool then does what build tools do: for each artifact it compares the modification time against the inputs, then skips anything whose inputs are not newer. The inputs arrived carrying their original timestamps.

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