I merged a change that should reduce the size of your Rust `target` directory by ~20%…
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I merged a change that should reduce the size of your Rust `target` directory by ~20% during development. It turns out the compiler was retaining an extra completed snapshot for every crate that was incrementally recompiled.
Posted by Charlie Marsh (50.6k followers) 4 days ago · 1.4k likes · 51k views · view the original post on X. Kept by the Dev Radar as Languages & runtimes.
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