I’ve been learning Rust a bit for tinkering with CLI tools (if curious… GitHub - MilesCranmer/rip2: A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm ). One thing I noticed is that the compilation time is super fast – even faster than Julia precompilation, let alone TTFX. I’m wondering what sorts of things are…

I think i’m rehashing what others have said a bit, but in essence I believe the difference in compile time performance is due to 3 things. Rust has spent a loot of dev time improving their compile times in the last couple years, leading to very nice improvements while julia has spent most of it’s …

Why is rust compilation faster than Julia pre-compilation?

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xiaoxi April 20, 2024, 12:16pm 6

Rust uses demand-driven compilation and is expected to use salsa-rs in the future.

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Why is rust compilation faster than Julia pre-compilation?

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