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Fast Rust Builds (2021)
It's common knowledge that Rust code is slow to compile. But I have a strong gut feeling that most Rust code out there compiles much slower than it could.
It’s hard for me to quantify the impact, but my intuitive understanding is that, as soon as the project grows beyond several thousands lines written by a single person, build times become pretty darn important! If correcting a typo requires keeping a PR tab open for half a hour, it’s better to just make a drive by fix in the next feature branch, right? [deny(warnings)] in code: you need to repeat it for every crate, it needlessly makes local development harder, and it might break your users when they upgrade their compiler.
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