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Cranelift based backend for rustc

12 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 0 stories, 12 comments · first 2024-03-16 · latest 2026-10-01

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  1. Cranelift's biggest blocker for me is that it completely breaks debuggers: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_cranelift/issues/...
    comment by dicytea · 2026-10-01 · in How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026
  2. https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_cranelift
    comment by junon · 2026-02-15 · in Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed
  3. …Writing a rustc backend isn't trivial, but it isn't as impossible as you make it out to be. [0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_cranelift
    comment by LegionMammal978 · 2025-12-24 · in map::operator[] should be nodiscard
  4. …speed still IME [1] https://github.com/rui314/mold [2] https://github.com/mozilla/sccache [3] https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_cranelift
    comment by chiffaa · 2025-08-28 · in Unexpected productivity boost of Rust
  5. …often in threads about Rust's long compilation time so I'm not sure if I'm missing something. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_cranelift/ [2] https://cranelift.dev/
    comment by feznyng · 2025-07-07 · in Building the Rust Compiler with GCC
  6. …an experimental Cranelift backend[0] for rustc to improve compilation performance in debug builds. https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_cranelift
    comment by LtdJorge · 2025-06-27 · in Why is the Rust compiler so slow?
  7. …originally built to be a JIT compiler. The hope is that this can become the debug build compiler. https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_cranelift
    comment by bbatha · 2025-06-12 · in Rust compiler performance
  8. …differentiator when comparing to Rust. FWIW there is a similar effort for Rust using cranelift: < https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_cranelift >
    comment by ctz · 2025-06-09 · in Self-hosted x86 back end is now default in debug mode
  9. …make, but it doesn't create an executable artifact. The other is probably the Cranelift Backend ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_cranelift ), which can produce debug builds quickly.
    comment by nindalf · 2024-07-16 · in I Hope Rust Does Not Oxidize Everything
  10. Windows is supported. See https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_cranelift/issues/... .
    comment by sanxiyn · 2024-03-19 · in Cranelift code generation comes to Rust
  11. https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_cranelift#platfor...
    comment by bhaney · 2024-03-18 · in Cranelift code generation comes to Rust
  12. …in to day that rust is also building a alternative to the LLVM backend in the form of cranelift : https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_cranelift
    comment by rvdca · 2024-03-16 · in What part of Rust compilation is the bottleneck?