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The article How to alleviate the pain of Rust compile times has a good summary on ways to speed up compilation of Rust projects.

Tips and Traps

1. The best tool to cache the compiling of a Rust application is to use sccache sccache . cachepot is another such good tool. It is essentially sccache with extra security.

2. sccache can be used in a Jupyter/Lab notebook with the evcxr kernel as well. Just specify the command :sccache 1 to enable compilation cache using sccache.

3. The cargo-cache tool is useful for managing compilation cache of Rust applications.

4. actions/rust-cache is a GitHub Action that implements smart caching for rust/cargo projects with sensible defaults.

References

• Improve Rust compile times with sccache

• Speed up Rust Builds with Cachepot

• cachepot

• cargo-cache

• actions/rust-cache @ GitHub

• Is coding in Rust as bad as in C++?

• Optimizing the Rust build