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Rust compiler performance
Perhaps the most often repeated complaint about Rust is its slow feedback loop and long compilation times. I hear about it all the time; in Rust podcasts, blog posts, surveys, conference talks or offline discussions. I also regularly complain about it, being a Rust user myself!
We don’t necessarily have to make the whole compiler faster if we can vastly improve the performance (or reduce the amount of work required) of specific workflows that currently limit the productivity of a large fraction of Rust developers. It is perfectly fine to want new features from a language, but we should not forget that (amongst other things, such as design discussions) it requires a lot of experimentation, refactoring, bug fixes, testing and implementation effort in the compiler, which again takes time from optimizing performance. Sometimes, the best way to help something move forward in Rust is not to implement it, but gather knowledge, become an expert in some compiler area, and help review the code of others, so that you can unblock other people to do the actual work :) But that of course takes a long-term investment (both in terms of time and money).
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