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71 | 179 | |
5,347 | 13,302 | |
3.0% | - | |
9.4 | 9.7 | |
2 days ago | 3 days ago | |
Rust | C++ | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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sccache
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Speeding up C++ build times
Use icecream or sccache. sccache supports distributed builds.
https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/blob/main/docs/Distribute...
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Mozilla sccache: cache with cloud storage
Worth noting that the first commit in sccache git repository was in 2014 (https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/commit/115016e0a83b290dc2...). So I suppose that what "happened" happened waay back.
- Welcome to Apache OpenDAL
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Target file are very huge and running out of storage on mac.
If you have lots of shared dependencies, maybe try sccache?
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S3 Express Is All You Need
I'm going to set up sccache [0] to use it tomorrow. We use MSVC, so EFS is off the cards.
[0] https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/blob/main/docs/S3.md
- sccache
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Serde has started shipping precompiled binaries with no way to opt out
I think the primary benefit of pre-built procmacros will be for build servers which don't use a persistent cache (like sccache), since they have to compile all dependencies every time. But IMO improved support for persistent caches would be a better investment compared to adding support for pre-built procmacros.
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Cache dependencies across crates
Checkout https://github.com/mozilla/sccache
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Distcc: A fast, free distributed C/C++ compiler
https://github.com/mozilla/sccache is another option which addresses the use cases of both icecream and ccache (and also supports Rust, and cloud storage of artifacts, if those are useful for you)
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How to fix Rust Coding LARGE files????
That being said a compilation cache, eg the de-facto standard for Rust: sccache (https://github.com/mozilla/sccache) will help to compile and store some of the build artifacts centralized - still for each crate version + build profile (RUSTFLAGS) combination.
mold
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I reduced (incremental) Rust compile times by up to 40%
I think this is unlikely to gain traction. I say that no to discourage you, just to explain.
- The community has an instinctive distrust of closed source or a compiler from an untrusted source. If you’re familiar with the Trusting Trust attack you’ll understand why.
- Dev tools in every language ecosystem are almost always free, unless they involve some kind of hosting. People aren’t used to opening their wallets. Look the experience of the guy who built the mold linker(https://github.com/rui314/mold). Far superior to the state of art, improves incremental compiles a lot, widely applicable across ecosystems (C, C++, Rust), CPU architectures and Operating Systems. You don’t even have to modify your compiler, just need to point to his linker. He’s even giving it away for free for personal use. But still, almost no one uses it. The inertia of the established options is really high.
- It’s not complex enough. Think about the complexity involved in the cranelift backend. No one can seriously recreate the efforts of bjorn3. If we could have, we would have. But the idea idea here can be recreated, especially by the experts who already built incremental compilation into rustc.
- But if your solution is truly complex, like the parallel frontend, the burden of maintaining a fork would be too high. You’d have to spend all your time rebasing.
Again I’m not trying to discourage you, just stating the difficulties of making a business in the dev tools space. You would be better off contributing this excellent work to the community and trying a different tack.
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Mold Course
I initially thought this would be about the mold linker (https://github.com/rui314/mold)
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Monetizing Developer Tools
I assume this submission is trying to highlight the specific message (2023-01-24) : https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/190#issuecomment-14028...
Fyi... the author wrote a more expansive blog post about selling dev tools a few months later (2023-06-06) and there was a related HN thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36225016
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mold 2.1.0 - rui314/mold
Loongson's LoongArch CPU has been supported. (03b1a1c)
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Mold 2.0.0
I'm amazed at how quickly the author responds to requests: https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/1057
From the report to the fix in less than two days.
I'm not sure how competitive it will be with lld, especially if we consider ThinLTO (which takes multiple minutes on 64-core machine) - it can make the advantages of mold insignificant.
- Mold 2.0 released - MIT license
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Linking many files significantly increases build time. Is there an editor that allows you to write a single file but present the file to the screen as multiple 'virtual' files for better organization?
What other solutions have you tried for the problem of slow linking? You haven't even said which linker and what flags you're using. I haven't actually tried it, but the author of gold has an even faster linker called mold: https://github.com/rui314/mold
- Design and Implementation of the Mold Linker
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Apple's new library format combines the best of dynamic and static
> Mold did it first, though: https://github.com/rui314/mold
Before LLD?
What are some alternatives?
ccache - ccache – a fast compiler cache
zld - A faster version of Apple's linker
cargo-chef - A cargo-subcommand to speed up Rust Docker builds using Docker layer caching.
wasmtime - A fast and secure runtime for WebAssembly
rust-cache - A GitHub Action that implements smart caching for rust/cargo projects
osxcross - Mac OS X cross toolchain for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Android (Termux)
cache - Cache dependencies and build outputs in GitHub Actions
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
icecream - Distributed compiler with a central scheduler to share build load
chibicc - A small C compiler
fluvio - Lean and mean distributed stream processing system written in rust and web assembly.
gccrs - GCC Front-End for Rust