Re: Some rather stupid questions about Rust and FreeBSD

Alan Somers wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 3:26 PM Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>> 1. It takes FOREVER to compile
> 
> I assume you mean lang/rust.  It does take FOREVER to compile, because
> it builds its own version of LLVM.  That's why I suggest adding it to
> ALLOW_MAKE_JOBS_PACKAGES , if you're using Poudriere.  Ordinary Rust
> programs generally compile at a similar speed as C programs.  Slower
> than Go, but faster than C++.
> 
rustc (lang/rust) supports using an existing LLVM toolchain 
(devel/llvm*). Since LLVM 8.0, the Rust Project maintain their copy of 
LLVM nearly the same way we do in base, and as such track the latest two 
release branches. Using the PORT_LLVM option in the port reduces the 
build time significantly (from not building LLVM) with no change in 
runtime behaviour.

-- 
Charlie Li
...nope, still don't have an exit line.