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I also work on a ~15kloc rust project. I use cargo check all the time. Still extremely slow, not to mention that my whole system can be locked up by rustc, whic
by staticassertion 7y ago
I also work on a ~15kloc rust project. I use cargo check all the time. Still extremely slow, not to mention that my whole system can be locked up by rustc, which really kills development.
I'll probably find a way to cgroup rustc just to deal with this issue.
- pimeys 7y agoI solved this by building myself a 3950x workstation. 16 cores and 32 GB of RAM does miracles for Rust workflows. That and the guidance kouteiheika gave above puts you far already.
- staticassertion 7y agoYeah I have 8 cores(HT) and 16GB, which is apparently just not enough. I think my plan is to just move builds to some kinda EC2 instance that I can bulk up.
- pimeys 7y agoIt's probably just the thermals. A desktop CPU runs circles over any laptop due to tremendously better thermals and power window.
- staticassertion 7y agoIt's possible, but my laptop runs fairly cool - it's elevated on a stand and is 18 inches, with a lot of ventilation. Of course it doesn't compare to a desktop system, but even still, this thing is hardly weak. It's a bit absurd to require 16 cores and 32GB of RAM to be productive.
- pjmlp 7y agoWhich means other system languages will continue to thrive for developers not so lucky with Rust compiler rigs.
- pimeys 7y agoThe funny thing is I paid about the same from my rig that people pay for a Macbook Pro. It is not really unaffordable and you get a great development machine. Of course nowadays the combination of Emacs and rust-analyzer gives you a very fast and nice workflow. That and one terminal running cargo watch -s 'clear; cargo check --tests --color=always 2>&1 | head -40' works miracles.