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This also relates to something not directly about rustc: many-core CPUs are much easier to get than five years ago, so a CPU-hungry compiler needn't be such a d
by twotwotwo 4y ago
This also relates to something not directly about rustc: many-core CPUs are much easier to get than five years ago, so a CPU-hungry compiler needn't be such a drag if its big jobs can use all your cores.
- masklinn 4y agoHowever, rustc currently has limited ability to parallelise at a sub-crate level, which makes for not-so-great tradeoffs on large projects.
- michaelt 4y agoIt's true! Steam hardware survey, Jan 2017 [1] vs Jan 2023, "Physical CPUs (Windows)" 2017 2023 1 CPU 1.9% 0.2% 2 CPUs 45.8% 9.6% 3 CPUs 2.6% 0.4% 4 CPUs 47.8% 29.6% 6 CPUs 1.4% 33.0% 8 CPUs 0.2% 18.8% More 0.3% 8.4% [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170225152808/https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/cpus/ https://web.archive.org/web/20170225152808/https://store.ste...