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Currently, every invocation of bal build, bal run, or bal test recompiles the entire project from scratch, even when there have been no changes to the source files since the last build. We need to introduce a mechanism to detect unchanged projects and skip redundant compilation steps for subsequent commands. This would significantly reduce build time when no code changes have been made since the last successful build.

Common use cases:

• Executing bal build immediately followed by bal run
• Executing bal build immediately followed by bal test

Implementing this optimization will improve the overall developer experience by making common workflows more efficient.

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