pierrelgol

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1. 1.▲
   by pierrelgol 5mo ago

   The problem is not just that Rust takes a few seconds longer once. It compounds across the edit/debug cycle. If you make around 800 save/check iterations in a day, then a 2.5–3.5s feedback loop costs roughly 34–48 minutes of waiti
2. 2.▲
   by pierrelgol 5mo ago

   from my own testing even their incremental on a codebase 10x smaller than the Zig compiler like Helix the text editor, on my machine almost all changes take 2/3s and with cranelift it's like 4/5s. So it's definitely a fa
3. 3.▲
   by pierrelgol 5mo ago

   That's true, but then there's also the case of working on the zig compiler which is roughly a million loc, and with `--watch -fincremental` you can get 200ms recompile even if you change some of the most called function. Meanwhile