Rust dev build directories to shrink ~20% after fix for redundant compiler snapshots

charliermarsh · x · 2026-09-15

Charlie Marsh (author of Ruff/uv) merged a change that cuts Rust target directory size by 20% during development: the compiler had been retaining an extra completed snapshot for every crate on each incremental recompile.

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