Caching

[eddiemonge]

Have you considered caching the binary so it runs faster? This is one of the longest running steps in my actions

[jonabc]

The latest licensed major release (4.x) no longer supports distributing licensed as a binary and licensed will be released as gem-only for the indefinite future.

The action generally only runs long when querying the GitHub API for available distributed binaries. The action gets rate limited by the GitHub API which causes the slowdown. These API calls won't happen when pulling the gem, which should lead to the action running much more quickly in the future.

As I mentioned in response to your other comment I'm pretty busy with work and life and don't have too much time to devote to optimizations in the action so I'm not planning to add caching at this time. I'll add a help wanted label in case anyone else feels like taking a look, but in the meantime I'd suggest installing licensed in your action workflow as a gem to speed up your action runs.