Tag: rustc

Over the last year, the Self-Profile Working Group has been building tools to profile rustc because we often hear requests to know where compilation time is being spent. This is useful when optimizing the compiler, one of the Compiler Team's ongoing efforts to improve compile times, but it's also useful to users who want to refactor their crate so that it will compile faster. We've been working on a new feature that will help with that and this blog post gives a preview of how it works. Be warned, though: it is still experimental and we expect the interface to change over time. The Rust Unstable Book has documentation for this feature and we'll keep that up to date so you can always find the latest instructions there.

In this post, we'll look at the tools currently available and use them to profile rustc while it compiles an example crate.

This article provides an overview of the compilation process and structure of Rust compiler. The main focus will be on the Mid-level Intermediate Representation (MIR) and understanding it.

For most of 2018, we've been issuing warnings about various bugs in the borrow checker that we plan to fix -- about two months ago, in the current Rust nightly, those warnings became hard errors. In about two weeks, when the nightly branches to become beta, those hard errors will be in the beta build, and they will eventually hit stable on December 19th, as part of Rust 1.40.0. If you're testing with Nightly, you should be all set -- but otherwise, you may want to go and check to make sure your code still builds. If not, we have advice for fixing common problems below.

The Learning Working Group, formed in April 2019, is focused on making the compiler easier to learn by ensuring that rustc-guide and API docs are "complete". It is one of the many efforts by the Rust Compiler team to decrease the barrier of contributing to the compiler.