87: Reviewing Elixir with José Valim - Part 2
Thinking Elixir Podcast
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Compiler and X Unit in 1.6
In 1.6, there are two last things that we can talk about, and we are going to finish for today. But we also have a lot of great improvements in both mix, especially the compiler and in X unit. We talked in the previous show how at the very first activity versions after 1.0, if you change one file in the code, it would recompile everything. And then we improved it to start tracking what is a compile time dependency, what is a runtime dependency. So before simply changing the struct would consider that module change at compilation time. With this change, if you add a new feature to the struct, we are only going to recompile if we would
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