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Projects like containerd/runwasi and containerd/rust-extensions all depend on ttrpc-rust and a quick cargo build --timings shows that they are compiling protobuf twice:

Ideally, we would want to keep just one version of the protobuf, so there is this request.
Discussion
Also, I realized that ttrpc-codegen depends on ttrpc-compiler. I'd suggest to use a local path for local development and make this repo a Cargo workspace to reduce compilation time.