The core devs are sympathetic (what with Rust being self-hosted) and apparently incremental compilation is coming soon: https://github.com/rust-lang/meeting-min

The core devs are sympathetic (what with Rust being self-hosted) and apparently incremental compilation is coming soon: https://github.com/rust-lang/meeting-minutes/blob/master/weekly-meetings/2014-09-30.md#cycle-time https://github.com/rust-lang/meeting-minutes/blob/master/wee... There is also a way to parallelize compilation, which might sometimes speed things up, it's just not enabled by default yet: http://discuss.rust-lang.org/t/default-settings-for-parallel-codegen/519 http://discuss.rust-lang.org/t/default-settings-for-parallel...