cargo-bake

Compile Rust faster with smarter defaults. Alternative to cargo build. The default bake compiles more quickly than Cargo's --release and produces reasonably fast code.

Usage:

$ cargo install cargo-bake
$ cargo bake <other-cargo-build-options>

The default ("normal") bake produces compiler flags more-or-less like

-C opt-level=2
-C inline-threshold=25
-C no-vectorize-loops
-C codegen-units=$NUM_CPUS_UP_TO_4
--link-args=--fuse-ld=gold
-Z no-verify
-C debuginfo=0

Besides the normal bake, cargo-bake also accepts a --fast bake, which is similar to Cargo's default, a --slow bake, similar to Cargo's release, and a --glacial bake, which additionally adds LTO.

By default cargo-bake, in all modes, reduces debuginfo generation to line numbers only. Use the --debug flag to turn on full debuginfo.

Run cargo bake --compare to compare compile time of cargo build --release to cargo bake.

Note: cargo-bake requires the 2015-11-23 nightlies or later.

Contributing

Can you make Rust build faster by tweaking the optimizations? Send me a PR!

How fast?

html5ever:

cargo build --release: 27467
cargo bake: 25733

hyper:

cargo build --release: 30156
cargo bake: 26743

regex:

cargo build --release: 7006
cargo bake: 5078

image:

cargo build --release: 50449
cargo bake: 50928

Future work

• Experiment with controlling the exact passes
• Experiment with turning off the alwaysinline pass

License

MIT/Apache-2.0