Comment by afdbcreid
6 hours ago
I'm pretty sure it does not support enough features to build the compiler (e.g. inline asm is not supported at all), and it will also be very, very slow to unusable.
6 hours ago
I'm pretty sure it does not support enough features to build the compiler (e.g. inline asm is not supported at all), and it will also be very, very slow to unusable.
Cranelift is supposed to compile without optimizations (-O0) faster than the regular Rust compiler, and supposedly, the code runs at about the same speed as regular -O0 compiled code. That generally means 2-5x slower runtime performance, which is just fine for bootstrapping.