How I speeded up my Rust builds on GitHub ~30 times

Rust is a great programming language, but it’s compiler is known to be slow. The main reason is that it checks so many things during the compilation in order to provides memory and concurrency safety. Like in many other cases, pipelines may be speeded up by caching, but it is very important to set the caching properly, otherwise it won’t help. Besides compiling your code may be slow, you also may want to use some cargo tools to lint and check your code and this will require to be compiled as well, if you don’t want to download binaries....

2022-05-18 · 5 min · Boban Acimovic

Add flag to Linux Mint application start command

Modern Linux desktop distributions contain really powerful settings possibilities, but it is very often difficult to find out how to configure something. You may want, for example, to add –disk-cache-dir flag to Chromium start command in order to configure cache directory, so how to do it? right click on the menu start button and select “Configure” click on the “Menu” button at the top of the “Menu” window click on the “Open the menu editor” button browse the applications and find the requested one (Chromium in this case) select the application and click on “Properties” button on the right add requested command flag in the “Command” field The described procedure relates to Linux Mint 19....

2019-10-03 · 1 min · Boban Acimovic