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Nope, pure compile time on a Core i7-10750H with Windows and Rust 1.52.1, antivirus disabled. WSL did not make much of a difference though (29 seconds).

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The Windows filesystem is extremely slow, even without WSL. It can be mitigated to some extent by using completion ports, but I doubt the Rust compiler is architectured that way--

You should benchmark against Linux as well.

cargo install on WSL2 uses the non-mapped home directory, which is on an ext4 virtual disk. That is probably one reason why it is six seconds faster.

> Windows

There's your problem.

Even Microsoft concedes that Windows is legacy technology now.

You must be joking? If not, provide us with a source

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