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Job	Run time
Linux-32-bit	20m 47s
Linux-Musl	17m 58s
macos-13 actions-310.yaml	27m 32s
macos-13 actions-311.yaml	42m 31s
macos-13 actions-312.yaml	42m 54s
macos-13 actions-39.yaml	33m 6s
macos-14 actions-310.yaml	24m 40s
macos-14 actions-312.yaml	25m 16s
macos-14 actions-39.yaml	30m 19s
macos-14 actions-311.yaml	21m 12s
windows-latest actions-311.yaml	42m 8s
windows-latest actions-312.yaml	46m 33s
windows-latest actions-310.yaml	38m 12s
windows-latest actions-39.yaml	38m 41s
python-dev (macOS-13)	27m 40s
python-dev (macOS-14)	12m 45s
python-dev (ubuntu-22.04)	24m 12s
python-dev (windows-latest)	27m 31s
ubuntu-latest actions-310.yaml	53m 15s
Copy-on-Write 3.10 (warnings)	30m 6s
Copy-on-Write 3.10	30m 1s
ubuntu-latest actions-311.yaml	49m 23s
Locale: zh_CN	29m 0s
Future infer strings (without pyarrow)	51m 7s
Copy-on-Write 3.11	28m 27s
Copy-on-Write 3.11 (warnings)	29m 37s
Downstream Compat	6m 31s
Locale: it_IT	28m 33s
Numpy Dev	24m 5s
Pyarrow Nightly	24m 0s
ubuntu-latest actions-312.yaml	37m 40s
Future infer strings	45m 41s
Copy-on-Write 3.12	32m 16s
ubuntu-latest actions-39.yaml	48m 47s
Copy-on-Write 3.9	30m 36s
Copy-on-Write 3.9 (warnings)	29m 31s
Minimum Versions	28m 36s
Pypy	7m 29s
	19h 48m 38s

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