And the difference is more useful in the more common scenario of editing code and checking it. Though those days, language servers like rust-analyzer do essenti

And the difference is more useful in the more common scenario of editing code and checking it. Though those days, language servers like rust-analyzer do essentially replace cargo check. Taking the alacritty project and modifying the source files to pretend something happened: > cargo clean Removed 1602 files, 545.8MiB total > cargo check [...] Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 17.12s > cargo build [...] Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 23.04s > find alacritty_terminal/ -name "*.rs" | xargs-I{} sh -c 'echo >> "{}"' > cargo check [...] Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 1.00s > cargo build [...] Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 2.37s I wish it was faster, but I will take the speedup that I can!