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Re:How generics are implemented in Go 1.18 by yakubin on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @05:47AM (#30525921)
> I've heard macros slow for largely the same reason, it's not the macro execution itself that's slow, it's compiling all the generated code.

If that were true, the same issue would apply to hygienic macros, yet it doesn't. It's distinctly a problem with proc macros.

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