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What're compile times like?

• todotask 7y ago
  Do you mean compile times for Nim or a project? It's accurate to test it yourself since it's free.
  • pastage 7y ago
    Projects of any note are notoriously hard to test for yourself since they often use build systems. Golang is nice in this respect, pretty easy and fast.
    • PMunch 7y ago
      Nim projects typically use `nimble` that ships with the install. So all you would need to do is `nimble build` in the root folder and voilà! Of course that also pulls the dependencies from the package manager, so you might want to just extract the build step from the `.nimble` file if you wanted to time just the compilation.
• yumaikas 7y ago
  For me, I'm seeing compile times averaging around 5-10 seconds, with outlier builds taking up to 40 seconds if the files in question aren't cached. It feels faster than Go, but I think part of that is down to Nim's compile output being verbose by default.
  • nimmer 7y ago
    Nim's compilation is much faster than Go.
    • dom96 7y ago
      As someone that compared both a while back (and a biased Nim core developer) I don't think this claim is true. Go is really fast at compilation, but honestly Nim is good enough.
• mratsim 7y ago
  It's fast, even when you use generics or metaprogramming. I have a couple of 10k+ LoC codebases.