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Re:Rust 1.47 by pjmlp on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:21AM (#24719928)
In theory yes, with the current LLVM toolchain doesn't look like it.
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Re:Rust 1.47 by vlang1dot0 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:32AM (#24720073)
LLVM has nothing to do with `const` evaluation in Rust. `const` evaluation happens at the MIR level which participates in incremental compilation.
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Re:Rust 1.47 by pjmlp on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:35PM (#24721558)
> cache the evaluated outputs

Was the point of my answer.

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Re:Rust 1.47 by vlang1dot0 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @02:30PM (#24722182)
Apologies but as your comment currently stands, it reads to me like "in theory yes, but actually no".
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