Comment by maccard

> That doesn't sound likely. I would expect seconds unless something very odd is happing.

And yet here we are.

There are plenty of stories like this floating around of degenerate cases of small projects. Here's [0] one example with numbers and how they solved it. There are enough of these issues that by getting bogged down in "well technically it's not Rust's fault, it's LLVM's single threadedness causing the slowdown here" ignores the point - Rust (very fairly) has a rep for being dog slow to compile even compared to large C++ projects

> For the rest of the workspace, 60k of rust builds in 60 seconds

That's... not fast.

https://github.com/buildkite/agent is 40k lines of go according to cloc, and running `go build` including pulling dependencies takes 40 seconds. Without pulling dependencies it's 2 seconds. _That's_ fast.

[0] https://www.feldera.com/blog/cutting-down-rust-compile-times...