There is definitely a marketing angle to these posts. Rust has a reputation for slow compilation, and one of my goals is to show that (a) people working on Rust care about compile times, and (b) improvements are being made.
I'll let you judge whether the marketing is backed by actual substance. It's a long-running blog post series, here are links to all the posts.
There is definitely a marketing angle to these posts. Rust has a reputation for slow compilation, and one of my goals is to show that (a) people working on Rust care about compile times, and (b) improvements are being made.
I'll let you judge whether the marketing is backed by actual substance. It's a long-running blog post series, here are links to all the posts.
* https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2016/10/14/how-to-speed...
* https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2016/11/23/how-to-speed...
* https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2018/04/30/how-to-speed...
* https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2018/06/05/how-to-speed...
* https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2018/11/06/how-to-speed...
* https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2019/07/17/how-to-speed...
* https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2019/07/25/the-rust-com...
* https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2019/10/11/how-to-speed...
* https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2019/12/11/how-to-speed...
* https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2020/04/24/how-to-speed...
* https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2020/08/05/how-to-speed...
EDIT: I just saw that alilleybrinker already linked to all these and more below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24061346