Comment by brodo
6 months ago
Also, Rust compile times aren't that bad the last time I checked. Maybe they got better and people just don't realize it?
6 months ago
Also, Rust compile times aren't that bad the last time I checked. Maybe they got better and people just don't realize it?
> Also, Rust compile times aren't that bad the last time I checked.
I dunno - I've got a trivial webui that queries an SQLite3 database and outputs a nice table and from `cargo clean`, `cargo build --release` takes 317s on my 8G Celeron and 70s on my 20G Ryzen 7. Will port it to Go to test but I'd expect it to take <15s from clean even on the Celeron.
I don’t think build time from `clean` is the right metric. A developer is usually using incremental compilation, so that’s where I want the whatever speed I can get.
Nobody likes a 5m build time, but that’s a very old slow chip!
"Incremental compilation is fast", is something people only talk about when normal compilation speeds are abysmal. Sadly, C++ set the expectations here, which made both Rust and Swift think that compilation times in the minutes is fine.
If your code compiles in 1 second from scratch then what do you need incremental compilation for?
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