Comment by IshKebab

Yeah definitely when you include dependencies. Also I've noticed that when your dependency tree gets above a certain size you end up pulling in every alternative crate for a certain task, because e.g. one of your dependencies uses miniz_oxide and another uses zlib-rs (or whatever).

On the other hand the compile to for most dependencies doesn't matter hugely because they are easy to do in parallel. It's always the last few crates and linking that take half the time.