Background: I recently "Actor-ized" a small program which was previously based on a QMH and had some minimal OOP-based design. Once I gained an understanding the AF's features and benefits, it was a no-brainer to refactor, and my code now has a couple dozen AF-based classes with at most a couple levels of inheritance. Everything in the project works great running it from the dev environment (LV 2023 x64, Windows 10) and I love the simplicity & extensibility of the new program architecture. Problem: When building it into an .exe, the Build Status modal just sits on "Initializing build. This could take several minutes..." for many many many many minutes... like ~20 minutes... before it eventually completes successfully (running through the usual Processing... and Compiling... and Saving... steps in a more reasonable time with progress bar marching as expected). Prior to my AF refactoring, a build took less ~30 seconds to complete. There are no Warnings. So here is my question: are super long build times something which is a known disadvantage with AF (or LVOOP more generally)? If not (and my situation is pathological), can anyone recommend any diagnostics tools which I can employ to help tease out what is causing the "Initializing build." step to take so long? I turned on the _log.txt generation option but that file provides no clues. (I like coffee but grabbing a new cup every time I have to wait around for a rebuild is probably bad for me.)

Update: It was a big pain, but I started a new project and then moved all source code over and now it's working normally. I didn't have to change any dependencies or anything. Seems as if there was just some corruption in one of the project files which was causing the build time issue.

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Extreme build times for Actor-based application?

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Hi @BertMcMahan, I created a fresh .lvprog (and some associated fresh .lvlibs) and then repopulated the hierarchy with the original .vi and .lvclass files (without copying them to a new location on the disk). Recreating the .lvclass'es from scratch seemed like too much to undertake, so I'm glad I didn't have to do that as well. Thx!