We’ve just released Wild version 0.9.0. It was a bit overdue, with our last release being back in January. It’s way too tempting to try to get just one more change in before the release, but you’ve got to cut it somewhere. Lots of progress
The Wild linker makes very extensive use of rayon for parallelism. Much of this parallelism is in the form of par_iter and friends. However, some parts of the linker don’t fit neatly because the amount of work isn’t known in advance. For ex…
Today, we’ve released Wild version 0.6.0. There were many changes and we were probably overdue for a release, having last released in May. This release saw contributions from many people: That’s the number of commits, which isn’t a great me…
Last week I had the pleasure of attending RustForge in Wellington, New Zealand. I gave a talk titled “Wild performance tricks”. You can watch a recording of my talk. If you’d prefer to read rather than watch, the rest of this post will cove…
Whenever I’m about to embark on implementing something even slightly non-trivial, I typically write out a plan for what I’m about to do. Writing it down helps me to uncover things that I hadn’t thought about. Usually, I write these designs
Bevy is a popular game engine for Rust. It’s pretty large and compilation times can be an issue. To help with this, Bevy provides an optional feature that when enabled, compiles most of Bevy as a dynamic library. This allows for faster iter…
I’ve been writing a linker, called Wild (see previous posts). Today, I’m going to talk about my approach to testing the linker. I think this is an interesting case study in its own right, but also there’s aspects of the approach that can li…
I’ve been busy working on the Wild linker (see previous posts), but wanted to divert for a moment to look at some other compilation speed things that I’ve been thinking about. This post discusses various thoughts about moving Rust codegen,
A month ago, I posted some investigations into Rust warm build times and I mentioned at the end that I was writing a linker called Wild in Rust. This post is an update with some of the work since then. I’ll go into a little bit of technical…
There are two main aspects to compile times that matter to developers. Cold build times, when building from scratch and warm build times when you’ve already built and you’re rebuilding following an edit. This article focuses on warm build t…
If you want a slightly shorter read, skip to Introducing Cackle. Alex is a software engineer who has built a tool which she licences to her customers. She only has a small number of clients, but they like her tool. She built her tool using