Blog post on selective test execution (#4175)

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-title: Mill Blog
+title: The Mill Build Engineering Blog
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 * xref:2-monorepo-build-tool.adoc[]
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 should take more than 10s to compile in a single-threaded fashion, and should be even
 faster in the presence of parallelism
 
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 Doing some ad-hoc benchmarks, we find that although the compiler is blazing fast, all
 build tools add significant overhead over compiling Java directly:
 
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 these numbers were arrived at, and what that means in un-tapped potential for Java build
 tooling to become truly great.
 
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 ## Mockito Core
 
 To begin to understand the problem, lets consider the codebase of the popular Mockito project:

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@@ -22,7 +22,10 @@ Software build tools mostly fall into two categories:
 One question that comes up constantly is why do people use Monorepo build tools? Tools
 like Bazel are orders of magnitude more complicated and hard to use than tools
 like Poetry or Cargo, so why do people use them at all?
-https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/is-he-stupid-is-she-smart-are-they-stupid[Are they stupid?]
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 It turns out that Monorepo build tools like Bazel or Mill do a lot of non-obvious things that
 other build tools don't, that become important in larger codebases (100-10,000 active developers).
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 below, from the perspective of Bazel (which I am familiar with) and Mill (which this
 technical blog is about).
 
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 ## Support for Multiple Languages