I was curious, so I ran a not-very-scientific test based on packages built from source on my desktop. The short version of a very long post (in the repos) is that the median build time for Rust packages is, indeed, pretty close to an order of magnitude greater than that of the C packages.
One caveat is that Rust (at least, through cargo) imports dependencies at build time, and that download/compile is included whereas with C dependencies are already installed in other packages or are included. Go behaves the same as Rust, and yet the median build times are even shorter than C, so it can’t all be blamed on dependency downloads, but it also can’t be ignored.
For my purposes, it makes no difference because upgrading software on my computer always includes this build time penalty for Rust programs - and this is why Rust programs, while being a fraction (50/800) of all from-source packages installed on my system consume a disproportionately large amount of the time it takes for me to do updates from AUR. And that’s why I’ve started ignoring packages that depend on cargo or rustc.
Just FYI, because I think this was in a different thread:
https://midwest.social/comment/15427570
I was curious, so I ran a not-very-scientific test based on packages built from source on my desktop. The short version of a very long post (in the repos) is that the median build time for Rust packages is, indeed, pretty close to an order of magnitude greater than that of the C packages.
One caveat is that Rust (at least, through cargo) imports dependencies at build time, and that download/compile is included whereas with C dependencies are already installed in other packages or are included. Go behaves the same as Rust, and yet the median build times are even shorter than C, so it can’t all be blamed on dependency downloads, but it also can’t be ignored.
For my purposes, it makes no difference because upgrading software on my computer always includes this build time penalty for Rust programs - and this is why Rust programs, while being a fraction (50/800) of all from-source packages installed on my system consume a disproportionately large amount of the time it takes for me to do updates from AUR. And that’s why I’ve started ignoring packages that depend on cargo or rustc.