> there are large portions of the compiler code that nobody touches because nobody understands it Could you link to one of those "large portions"? > and as pe

> there are large portions of the compiler code that nobody touches because nobody understands it Could you link to one of those "large portions"? > and as per him this along with bunch of other limitations guarantees that you won't see huge gains in compile times unless they rewrite the whole compiler... You mean like https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scala-internals/6HL6lVLI3bQ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scala-internals/6HL6... ?