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    1. Nicholas Nethercote‏ @nnethercote 29 Apr 2018
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      How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018 https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2018/04/30/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-2018/ …

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    2. Nicholas Nethercote‏ @nnethercote 29 Apr 2018
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      I consider rustc's slowness an existential threat to Rust's success. "Great language, but the compiler was too slow" is a tragic outcome. If you find this kind of work interesting at all, please consider pitching in! I'm very happy to help getting people up to speed.

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    3. Robert O'Callahan‏ @rocallahan 30 Apr 2018
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      Replying to @nnethercote

      I don't quite understand the problem well enough to go off on a big rant about it, but I suspect that to make a step change, the compiler needs to process multiple crates at once so that it can start compiling a crate as soon as its dependencies have been typechecked.

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    4. Lars Bergstrom‏ @larsberg_ 30 Apr 2018
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      Replying to @rocallahan @nnethercote

      I'm also really excited by the work @nokusu is leading up in a new WG working on compiler optimizations within rustc, pre-LLVM. LLVM pass times are still the biggest culprit (for Servo/Firefox) and I am guessing the best way to do that is shrinking/pre-optimizing the input IR.

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    5. Robert O'Callahan‏ @rocallahan 30 Apr 2018
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      Replying to @larsberg_ @nnethercote @nokusu

      I'm sure you're right about "the biggest culprit" when you look at profiles, but don't let that obscure the limitations on parallelism imposed by running all those LLVM passes before even starting to parse crates higher on the dependence graph.

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    6. Lars Bergstrom‏ @larsberg_ 30 Apr 2018
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      Replying to @rocallahan @nnethercote @nokusu

      It's totally servo-specific, but we've noticed that the non-linear compile times for code and unbalanced crate sizes mean that anything else we do apart from improving the performance of compiling the script crate or the final link is useful but shuffling 1% here or there.

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    7. Lars Bergstrom‏ @larsberg_ 30 Apr 2018
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      Replying to @larsberg_ @rocallahan and

      w.r.t. compiling other crates, are you suggesting that we could be parsing the higher crates once enough metadata from the compilation of lower crates is complete? Typically one problem we have on Servo that could help is just doing a smarter schedule.

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      Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 30 Apr 2018
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      Replying to @larsberg_ @rocallahan and

      .@eddyb_r has suggested just that for quite a while now.

      4:18 PM - 30 Apr 2018 from South Beach, San Francisco
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        1. Lars Bergstrom‏ @larsberg_ 30 Apr 2018
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          Yes, we used to talk about it every six months or so :-) Of course, as often happens in the meantime @alex_crichton appears to have already fixed it https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/5100 … ! /me should check it out in Servo...

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