Much faster!

Posted Mar 18, 2024 21:01 UTC (Mon) by proski (guest, #104)
Parent article: Cranelift code generation comes to Rust

I tried to compile alacritty (a terminal program) using Cranelift. It compiles much faster. It really makes the difference for the development, when I want to test my changes quickly.

The resulting binary would panic on startup. The backtrace points to some unsafe code in `fontconfig-rs`. It could actually be a bug in that code. It's nice to have another tool that can find issues in unsafe code. Miri is a tool specifically for that purpose, but it has too many limitations.