What part of Rust compilation is the bottleneck?

Re:What part of Rust compilation is the bottleneck? by KingOfCoders on Saturday March 16, 2024 @05:46AM (#39724520)

I wonder why we do not split up compilation more - especially for web developer. Rust does this a little with "check", C with "-O".

I want fast compilation for my dev cycle or for unit tests, I want slow compilation with optimizations, escape analysis, correctness etc. for production (the distinction between a compiler and linter is also not clear, some compiles do what linters do in other languages).

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Re:What part of Rust compilation is the bottleneck? by jokethrowaway on Saturday March 16, 2024 @05:55AM (#39724555)

We do, you have profile configuration for dev or for release

You can get pretty big differences in terms of compile speed / binary size

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Re:What part of Rust compilation is the bottleneck? by IshKebab on Saturday March 16, 2024 @11:17AM (#39726655)

Giving up entirely on the compile time of "performance" builds can be bad too though, e.g. for people writing games, audio software, etc.

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Re:What part of Rust compilation is the bottleneck? by bluGill on Saturday March 16, 2024 @01:21PM (#39727711)

Only if you need to test the full game. If you can unit test algorithms and learn something then fast builds matter.

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