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I've been doing more and more Rust. Even with sscache the compile times are not great so for any moderately sized codebase that requires frequent rebuilds I don

• wongarsu 5mo ago
  I'd assume mostly by avoiding the need for frequent rebuilds. Incremental builds are pretty fast (at least fast enough for my needs on a moderate codebase), full rebuilds can be brutal There are also some optimization tricks related to how you split your code among crates, since a unit of compilation is mostly one crate. Putting your FFI code in a separate crate (-sys crates are the norm) and splitting some of your code in libraries that can be compiled in parallel are the common examples
• unsolved73 5mo ago
  the linking of the project can take more time than actual compilation. Use the lld linker instead of the default one, see https://kerkour.com/rust-production-checklist#use-the-lld-linker https://kerkour.com/rust-production-checklist#use-the-lld-li...
• peterfirefly 5mo ago
  On Windows? Use a dev drive.
• cauterize 5mo ago
  kache helps
• culebron21 5mo ago
  I split into subcrates and also reduce the number of proc macros (e.g. got rid of Serde).