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		zozbot123 on Jan 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C++ Modules Might Be Dead-On-Arrival Isn't this pipelining as opposed to parallelism? I assume that multiple downstream crates are already compiled in parallel whenever possible.

est31 on Jan 28, 2019 [–]

Yes, often things are compiled in parallel but often there are tight spots in the compilation graph where only one crate is compiling because all later crates are relying on it.

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