Rust – Faster compilation with the parallel front-end in nightly

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  • grapl

    Discontinued Graph platform for Detection and Response

  • https://github.com/grapl-security/grapl/

    I just did a clean build `cargo build`, 19 minutes 44 seconds.

    I added 1 line (`dbg!("foo")`) and it took 14.76s

  • mrustc

    Alternative rust compiler (re-implementation)

  • Well, there is mrustc[0], a Rust compiler that doesn't include a borrow-checker, so it's possible to compile (at least some versions of) Rust without a borrow checker, though it might not result in the most optimized code.

    AFAIK there are some optimization like the infamous `noalias` optimization (which took several tries to get turned on[1]) that uses information established during borrow checking.

    I'm also not sure what the relation with NLL (non-lexical lifetimes) is, where I would assume you would need at least a primitive borrow-checker to establish some information that the backend might be interested in. Then again, mrustc compiles Rust versions that have NLL features without a borrow-checker, so it's again probably more on the optimization side than being essential.

    [0]: https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc

    [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/57259339

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