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diff --git a/src/tools/opt-dist/README.md b/src/tools/opt-dist/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..05a75870d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/tools/opt-dist/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +# Optimized build pipeline +This binary implements a heavily optimized build pipeline for `rustc` and `LLVM` artifacts that are used for both for +benchmarking using the perf. bot and for final distribution to users. + +It uses LTO, PGO and BOLT to optimize the compiler and LLVM as much as possible. +This logic is not part of bootstrap, because it needs to invoke bootstrap multiple times, force-rebuild various +artifacts repeatedly and sometimes go around bootstrap's cache mechanism. |