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taylorallred06/26/20251 replyview on HN

That "just" was too flippant. My bad. What I meant to convey is "hey, there's some fast compiling going on here and it wasn't that hard to pull off. Can we at least take a look at why that is and maybe do the same thing?".


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steveklabnik06/26/2025

> "hey, there's some fast compiling going on here and it wasn't that hard to pull off. Can we at least take a look at why that is and maybe do the same thing?".

Do you really believe that nobody over the course of Rust's lifetime has ever taken a look at C compilers and thought about if techniques they use could apply to the Rust compiler?

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