Nicholas has been doing yeoman's work on speeding up the Rust compiler. This is the latest in a long line of contributions to tackle what has been one of Rust's most persistent problems: long compile times.
* 2020-08-05: "How to Speed Up the Rust Compiler Some More in 2020" https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2020/08/05/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-some-more-in-2020/ (this post)
* 2020-04-04: "How to Speed Up the Rust Compiler in 2020" https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2020/04/24/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-2020/
* 2019-12-11: "How to Speed Up the Rust Compiler One Last Time in 2019" https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2019/12/11/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-one-last-time-in-2019/
* 2019-10-11: "How to Speed Up the Rust Compiler Some More in 2019" https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2019/10/11/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-some-more-in-2019/
* 2019-07-17: "How to Speed Up the Rust Compiler in 2019" https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2019/07/17/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-2019/
* 2019-06-25: "The Rust Compiler is Still Getting Faster" https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2019/07/25/the-rust-compiler-is-still-getting-faster/
* 2018-11-06: "How to Speed Up the Rust Compiler in 2018: NLL Edition" https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2018/11/06/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-2018-nll-edition/
* 2018-06-05: "How to Speed Up the Rust Compiler Some More in 2018" https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2018/06/05/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-some-more-in-2018/
* 2018-05-17: "The Rust Compiler is Getting Faster" https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2018/05/17/the-rust-compiler-is-getting-faster/
* 2018-04-30: "How to Speed Up the Rust Compiler in 2018" https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2018/04/30/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-2018/
* 2016-11-23: "How to Speed Up the Rust Compiler Some More" https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2016/11/23/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-some-more/
* 2016-10-14: "How to Speed Up the Rust Compiler" https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2016/10/14/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler/ (the post that started it all!)
He's also written about tools and concepts for crate maintainers to understand and improve their own compile-times:
* 2019-10-10: "Visualizing Rust Compilation" https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2019/10/10/visualizing-rust-compilation/
* 2018-11-09: "How to get the size of Rust types with `-Zprint-type-sizes`" https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2018/11/09/how-to-get-the-size-of-rust-types-with-zprint-type-sizes/
* 2018-07-24: "Ad Hoc Profiling" https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2018/07/24/ad-hoc-profiling/
He's also contributed to useful profiling tooling!
* 2019-04-19: "A Better DHAT" https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2019/04/17/a-better-dhat/
All this to say: huge thank you to Nicholas, and if you're interested in learning how to do real-world performance work, these posts are an excellent resource!
