[$] Rust's incremental compiler architecture
Date:
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:29:28 +0000
Description:
The traditional structure of a compiler forms a pipeline parsing, type-checking, optimization, and code-generation, usually in that order. But modern programming languages have requirements that are ill-suited to such a design. Increasingly, compilers are moving toward other designs in
order to support incremental compilation and low-latency responses for uses like integration into IDEs. Rust has, for the last eight years, been pursuing a
particularly unusual design; in that time
compile times have substantially improved , but there's still more work to be done.
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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/997784/
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