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Re:Rust-GPU: Making Rust a first-class language and ecosyste... by frogfish on Saturday October 24, 2020 @07:04AM (#24878401)
Genuinely curious about the last sentence and would like to learn more on the Gentoo approach. Could you please provide a link or a little more details?
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Re:Rust-GPU: Making Rust a first-class language and ecosyste... by creata on Saturday October 24, 2020 @07:06AM (#24878415)
By "the Gentoo approach", I think pjmlp is referring to the fact that Cargo crates are usually compiled from source for each project, rather than simply distributing binaries. See [the Wikipedia article for Gentoo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Linux):

> Unlike a binary software distribution, the source code is compiled locally according to the user's preferences and is often optimized for the specific type of computer.

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