Parallelise Compilation with Rayon

[iwillspeak]

Update the compilation transformation and emit code to work on chunks (probably functions) in parallel. The Rayon crate should provide a good framework for this.

[naturallymitchell]

perhaps Actix?

[iwillspeak]

Interesting idea. My gut reaction was an immediate “no”, but the more I think about it actor based compilation might be an interesting thing to mess about with.

Tempted to have a mess about with that idea on a stand-alone project first.

[iwillspeak]

I guess it could work similar to the query-based compilation model fron Rust. You’d have to be carful that you don’t contend around single-threaded access to actors though.