Mastodawn

Why is #Rust compiler such a piece of crud? Not only it is slow as molasses, but it completely knocks off whole computer. I compile much larger programs with #GCC (I am a #Python interpreter maintainer after all), but it has never been such drama as every other Rust program (vim9jit just killed my computer).

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danigm 1d ago

@mcepl if we could have dynamic linking and do not build every dependency everytime, it could be a lot faster. But I don't know who will be brave enough to try to package the whole crates.io for any Linux distribution.

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Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦

@danigm

To be precise, I don’t care that much about the speed … yes, statically linked binaries are blast from the past, I can live with that. However, even #GoLang compiler, which is in the same boat, doesn’t knock of my system.