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Re:A Few More Reasons Rust Compiles Slowly by O_H_E on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @12:21AM (#23686521)
I believe what they meant was that Apple needs to support less hardware variations. Compilers frequently have a host of flags that depend on CPU features which can potentially make the code behave slightly differently. If cargo was to implement this, they need to compile each package many times (with different configs) more than apple need to do so for Swift.

And yes of course it is given that apple's resources is vast to say the least.

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Re:A Few More Reasons Rust Compiles Slowly by masklinn on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @01:19AM (#23686811)
> I believe what they meant was that Apple needs to support less hardware variations.

I understand that very well. My point is that they wouldn’t be doing it regardless if they didn’t want to, and if they really want to (for reasons I outlined) they have the resources to make it happen essentially regardless of the constraints or hardware breadth.

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