TonyBai

Feb 5, 2026 · Backend Development

Why Large Go Projects Build Slowly and How Brad’s -cachelink Can Slash Test Wait Times

Building large Go monorepos often stalls at the linking stage, even when only test parameters change, but Brad Fitzpatrick’s recent -cachelink proposal lets the linker output be cached in GOCACHE, enabling repeated test runs to skip linking and dramatically reduce CI and local testing latency.