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by CrendKing 1080 days ago
> The staircase shape formed by the left-hand side of the LLVM threads is because the rustc thread does the MIR-to-LLVM-IR conversion one CGU at a time, and the LLVM thread for a CGU cannot be spawned until that conversion is complete.

Is there a particular reason why this can't be parallelized?