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Joker_vD • yesterday at 2:44 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> the fact that the article talks about "speeding up" the rust compiler doesn't automatically mean that the compiler is "slow"

Well, if it weren't "slow" for some definition of "slow", nobody would bother speeding it up, would they?


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bryanlarsen • yesterday at 2:52 PM

The go compiler is considered fast, yet Google spends effort speeding up the go compiler. Not to the same extent, but Google has a lot of go code, so it does make a difference.