Hey @Gnosnay,

Meilisearch is pretty slow to build, sadly but there are a few strategies you can try to improve the build time:

Specify the package you want to build

Building only the package you're working on will improve the compile time since you won't build the benchmarks, meilitool, and other stuff:

• You can either cd into the crate you're working on. For example, if you're only working on milli you can run cd crates/milli and then cargo build will only build this crate.
• Or you can specify the package you want to build with the -p option of cargo build: cargo build -p meilisearch for example.

When you don't need to index a lot of documents, build in debug mode

Sometimes you'll need to index a lot of documents, and in this case, it may be mandatory to build meilisearch in release mode; otherwise, it'll take too much time to index anything.
But you should always try to build meilisearch in debug mode; that makes the compile time way better. So remove the --release argument about cargo build if you are using it.

Improve the linking time

The default linker of macOS is not very good, and meilisearch spends a lot of time linking artifacts.
Moving to a better linker like lld or mold can significantly improve the build time.
On my side, I'm using lld on Linux.