Re:It is fast or it is wrong
by jakobegger on Saturday December 29, 2018 @12:37PM
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Yeah, so we're experiencing this right now. We're writing more and more of our app in Swift (slowly migrating from Objective C), and compile times are growing as a result. It's extremely frustrating. 90 second compile times seem forever when you are used to incremental builds that take only seconds.
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That's fair. If it's 90s and it's part of a developer workflow that is triggered more than a few times a day, it matters. I haven't worked with Swift in particular, but in general you might be able to do incremental compilations to avoid that problem rather than "rebuild the entire project" with every change.
My real point is that I care about everything more than speed until I have a specific reason to care about speed. Then I'll care about speed.
In contrast, many programmers fetishize speed and efficiency as a quasi-religious value, even when they have no practical consequences.
Re:It is fast or it is wrong
by jakobegger on Saturday December 29, 2018 @01:09PM
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I think Swift has support for incremental builds (it's not always 90 seconds).