Comment on What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech?

• porgamrer@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  LLVM is ironically a very slow compiler back-end, whose popularity has contributed to a general slow-down in compilation speed across the whole industry (it’s even slow at doing debug builds for fast iteration).

  WASM has some promise though

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  • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Doesn’t really matter if the compiler is slow if the result is optimized and fast 🤷 Rust compiles slower than C, but that’s because C has no safeguards (excluding static typing). Very often the wasted CPU cycles are on the end of the user, not the developer.

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