On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:20 AM, John Mija <jon...@proinbox.com> wrote: > This email is related to one sent to the Go mailing list[1] about the > great difference in compiling time between Rust which took 50 minutes, > and Go with a time of 2 minutes in build compiler, all libraries, all > commands and testing. > > It looks that it is possible because it has been written in C, instead > of use C++. It is also interesting to know that the Go compiler has been > based in the Plan9 C compilers[2]. > > > [1]: > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/golang-nuts/bKDfVp0dzKw > [2]: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/new_c_compilers/ > http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/compiler > > Note: do not take this email like negative, I only hope that Rust can go > to better in time.
One factor is that Rust includes its own branch of LLVM as a submodule, and LLVM takes quite a long time to compile on its own. -Joe _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
