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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

I realized today that in order to compile Rust projects you need a ThreadRipper and also my colleague said this to me. A basic laptops literally melts when compiling Rust ;-) It's a programming language that is free but requires 2k - 12k EUR CPU to build anything reasonable.

My colleague also said that as bonus it helps to keep your house warm so I guess it is shopping time...

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chimbosonic@fosstodon.org

chimbosonic

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@jarkko been compiling my projects on a x230 🤷. Also if you are building lots like with rust analyser I recommend setting up sccache which cache compiled artifacts which saves loads of time!

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@chimbosonic yeah I was thinking about setting up sccache and should do that. Its inspiration ccache is already a time saver when compiling BuildRoot images.

Sorry, I just like to exaggerate things, can't help with bad humor ;-)
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@chimbosonic I remember X230 because it was like the last ever properly built X-series laptop with TWO SO-DIMM slots (no fused memory chips). Makes me sad to hear about that model, or how crap hardware has become after it ;-)
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chimbosonic@fosstodon.org

chimbosonic

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@jarkko yep Lenovo went downhill after it. I also was joking I mostly dev a MacBook nowadays (Corporate machine was that or a win box). Just wanted to say you can build rust projects on anything that can build the kernel. Obviously a threadripper will reduce wait times to nothing.

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@chimbosonic Yeah, I'll spending a lot of time with some Rust projects so definitely worth of investment for saving nerves.

edit: I got less that 7 min compilation time with a project having over 2100 sub-crates to compile per build from clean state, once cache was warmed up first, so thanks for the tip!
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chfkch@ruhr.social

chfkch nixos rust

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@jarkko
Meanwhile i compile my app on my trusted phone.
We are not the same.
😂

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@chfkch meanwhile I could not care less 🤷
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