I like to install stuff with cargo install (ripgrep, lsd, zoxide etc). But the compilation time is really hard when trying to bring up a new system from scratch. Does sccache work with cargo install to reduce the compilation time?
It should do. All cargo commands respect the rustc-wrapper field in your ~/.cargo/config and use that instead of rustc when specified.
What about if I set it via the RUSTC_WRAPPER environment variable?
Is there a way to tell when a crate build was skipped due to the cache? its not obvious just by looking at the time spent.
Yes, all environment variables should be inherited by any processes spawned by cargo.
I think sccache would try to deliberately not print anything to stdout/stderr in case it messes up legitimate compiler output.
You can print out stats showing how many hits and misses you get, though.
$ sccache --show-stats
Compile requests 186
Compile requests executed 159
Cache hits 157
Cache hits (Rust) 157 <---------------
Cache misses 2
Cache misses (Rust) 2
Cache timeouts 0
Cache read errors 0
Forced recaches 0
Cache write errors 0
Compilation failures 0
Cache errors 0
Non-cacheable compilations 0
Non-cacheable calls 27
Non-compilation calls 0
Unsupported compiler calls 0
Average cache write 0.001 s
Average cache read miss 2.251 s
Average cache read hit 0.001 s
Failed distributed compilations 0
Non-cacheable reasons:
crate-type 27
Cache location Local disk: "/home/michael/.cache/sccache"
Cache size 3 GiB
Max cache size 10 GiB
Oh "show-stats" looks perfect. One last question do you know if it's possible to run "cargo install for multiple packages in parallel? The final linking step always takes a while and it's fully single threaded, theoretically multiple programs could be linked in parallel
Why don't you try it and find out?
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