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How long does Crater take to compile all (2792!) crates in stock on crates.io? It ought to be embarrassingly parallelizable. Is there a dashboard page showing t

• brson 11y ago
  At the moment we are using 60 r3.xlarge spot instances each running a single build at a time, and as of a few weeks ago it took maybe two hours. It hasn't been optimized. There is no web dashboard yet (the website[1] - which runs Rust! - is quite minimal), but it's coming. [1]: https://crater.rust-lang.org/ https://crater.rust-lang.org/
  • LegNeato 11y ago
    I wonder if you can use Buck with its distributed cache to make this go way faster?
  • PudgePacket 11y ago
    Where does the money come from to pay for these instances? Is it Mozilla?
    • kibwen 11y ago
      Yes, Mozilla currently foots the bill for Rust's infrastructure. Currently there's no way to finance funding of Rust development directly, though we'd happily consider accepting donations of services from companies that provide these sort of things. :)