Comment on Is making the rust compiler slow a billion dollar mistake?parentComments−afdbcreid1yNone of the passes rustc does are whole-program. LLVM does some whole-program passes, but that's also true for C++.−bjourne1yWell, I wrote "in spirit". The point is that Rust, on average, needs to recompile much more code per change than a language that relies on small and self-contained compilation units.
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None of the passes rustc does are whole-program. LLVM does some whole-program passes, but that's also true for C++.
Well, I wrote "in spirit". The point is that Rust, on average, needs to recompile much more code per change than a language that relies on small and self-contained compilation units.