DevLobstersabout 5 hours ago
Parallelizing Compilation: In-Process vs Multi-Process
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Two main approaches exist for parallelizing compilation: single-threaded compilers with build systems spawning N processes (C, C++) and multi-threaded compilers (Rust, Zig). The author is designing a programming language with fast compilation as an explicit goal. Zig and Rust share ideas but have wildly different compilation speeds.
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