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Incremental compilation is something that no major compiler for any ahead-of-time compiled language anywhere does. It's one of the most advanced features in any compiler, and as such it's taking time to implement. No C++ compiler I know of is even thinking of it.

As the first post here in this thread mentions, going down the C++ road of header files might have gotten us some short term wins, but ultimately it hits a brick wall. Incremental compilation is inescapable.



I surely do consider Visual C++ a major compiler for any ahead-of-time compiled language.

It does incremental compilation and incremental linking.

I would be quite happy if cargo was half as fast as my UWP projects.




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