Vinix – A modern operating system written in V

Re:Vinix – A modern operating system written in V by agumonkey on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:32PM (#49744716)

It was impossible to verify the "earth shattering claims" of the designer/users early on, and they would be very very emotional every time you just question the metrics. At one point there was a chart that was basically "for a given task, every compiler on earth: 1min, us: 0.1sec"

And whenever you poke you found it seemed to be comparing apple and oranges and conversations often ended in v users crying because "this is a new project !"

(yet, the crowd kept growing and they seemed to have produced larger and larger projects with this thing)

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Re:Vinix – A modern operating system written in V by amedvednikov on Saturday September 19, 2026 @07:44AM (#49765725)

V has always compiled itself in <1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvP6wmcl_Sc

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Re:Vinix – A modern operating system written in V by agumonkey on Saturday September 19, 2026 @05:02PM (#49770101)

afaik it has none of the costly compiling passes..

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Re:Vinix – A modern operating system written in V by amedvednikov on Sunday September 20, 2026 @02:53AM (#49773157)

Transformer, checker, markused, binary generation are not costly?

It takes GCC this much time to generate an unoptimized hello world.

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Re:Vinix – A modern operating system written in V by agumonkey on Sunday September 20, 2026 @07:33AM (#49774761)

i could never find any data on what would allow v to save so much time. i genuinely tried to find objective information, not kneejerk hate. you're the author it seems, so maybe you can give some hints ? i don't believe gcc is the absolute best, but even clang (I didn't check other languages/compilers) was lagging behind in the benchmarks which made me doubt it was not just comparing apple and oranges.

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