Indexable's Blaze says it cuts one Bevy rebuild from 32 seconds to 352 ms

Founder Andrew Gazelka built the Rust tool to recompile edited functions in place; its headline speedup comes from one Linux benchmark.

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Primary source: Hacker News

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Blaze targets repeated Rust edit-build cycles, where incremental compilation could reduce waiting between code changes.

A black bottle labeled “In” stands beside an open laptop displaying code, with a plant, notebook and pen, and a mug marked “Rw” nearby.

Indexable says its Blaze tool rebuilt one edited function in the Bevy game engine in 352 milliseconds, compared with 32.13 seconds for Cargo on Linux ARM. That is a 91x result in the project's benchmark table, and the clearest evidence behind a repository headline claiming builds can be up to 92x faster.…

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