Update bazel and other CI improvements #13246
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What type of PR is this?
Other
What does this PR do? Why is it needed?
Updates bazel to v6.4.0, which has various improvements including using BLAKE3 for the digest function. Although it is not supported by some remote caches at this time (see: buchgr/bazel-remote#710).
In CI, the following flags are applied:
The race detection test targets have been deleted. These will be discovered and run in a separate step in CI as follows:
Which issues(s) does this PR fix?
Slight improvements to CI
Other notes for review
Build stats on a clean, expunged repo, without caching, 32 cores linux amd64.
Before:
After
There is a reduction of 164 seconds (~23%) to build all targets.