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Re:A Few More Reasons Rust Compiles Slowly by Cyph0n on Monday June 29, 2020 @06:58PM (#23684428)
Just to add to other comments: Cargo feature flags are another reason why you need to build your dependencies.

Of course, if Cargo supported pre-compiled dependencies, I am guessing that it would be smart enough to only recompile the dependencies that are using non-default features.

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Re:A Few More Reasons Rust Compiles Slowly by Matthias247 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @12:09AM (#23686456)
In addition to just feature flags the fact that a lot of Rust code is generic and would only be compiled into binary form in the final application would likely prevent excessive use of precompiled artifacts.
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