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Re:The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred by devbent on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @10:28PM (#40665345)
> If you've ever worked on a project with a 40 minute build

I've worked on plenty of C++ code based that had a 2 day build time!

If you were lucky, incremental builds only took a few hours.

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Re:The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred by erik_seaberg on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @10:31PM (#40665359)
I remember hearing that Microsoft was excited to get full NT builds below 24 hours.
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Re:The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred by devbent on Thursday June 13, 2024 @10:40AM (#40670298)
Windows Mobile and Office is where I did my time. :D
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Re:The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred by aixpert on Thursday June 13, 2024 @04:39AM (#40667305)
I wander what these projects do wrong. Can't they be split into different dynamically loaded libraries with just the headers exposed?
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