Production-ready cranelift backend

[nikomatsakis]

Metadata
Point of contact	@folkertdev
Team(s)	compiler, wg-compiler-performance
Goal document	2025h2/production-ready-cranelift

Summary

This project aims to get the rust cranelift codegen backend to a production-ready state. Specifically, with this work completed, we'd be confident to recommend it as the default for local development, e.g. with cargo test or cargo run.

Tasks and status

• Acquire funding ()
• Standard reviews (compiler )
• Dedicated reviewer (compiler )
• Deploy to production (wg-compiler-performance )
• Do the work (@bjorn3, @folkertdev)

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