Why not lz4? It's faster than snappy.
On Nov 29, 2013 11:29 AM, "Patrick Walton" <pcwal...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On 11/29/13 10:26 AM, comex wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Daniel Micay <danielmi...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> A minimal program definitely doesn't compile more slowly than `clang`:
>>>
>>
>> Well, I said it was mostly unrelated. :)
>>
>> Importing the std crate is responsible for the overhead, but if the C
>> program can bring in basic library functions in the time it takes Rust
>> to bring in nothing, it's still faster.
>>
>> ...but according to Instruments, almost 70% of the compilation time
>> for an empty non-#[no_std] crate is being spent inside
>> flate::inflate_bytes (93ms).  If that's accurate, it doesn't sound too
>> hard to fix, if it matters to anyone.  Compilation time for more
>> substantial crates is more interesting, of course, but I do like the
>> instantaneous feeling of compiling small C utilities.
>>
>
> Yeah, we need to rework the representation of metadata. I'd also like to
> try switching to Snappy at some point (or just not compressing).
>
> Patrick
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