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Chromium absolutely does not only build that way.

I occasionally build chromium on my machine, and sure it takes two hours the first time, but incremental builds after that are only on the order of minutes.

C++ code can be incrementally compiled... Sure, it's not as good as in many other languages due to headers being so heavy, but it's still a massive reduction in total build time.



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