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by gribbly 3113 days ago
>Turbo Pascal compilation speed, in MS-DOS, using 90’s hardware was already faster than Go.

What relevance does this have on the compiler landscape today ?

If you have to use a compiler from ~30 years ago to find a comparison supporting your claim, it sounds very much like Go is indeed much faster than what it competes against today.
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pjmlp 3113 days ago
The relevance is that a compiler running in 90's hardware is able to beat Go's compilation speeds of 2017. That same compiler has evolved through the years.

If you want the 2017 version of it, it is called Delphi. Beats Go in language features and compilation speed.

Go's compilation speed only surprises those developers that never used anything else beyond C and C++.

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gribbly 3113 days ago
>The relevance is that a compiler running in 90's hardware is able to beat Go's compilation speeds of 2017

And beat 99% of other compilers today, meaning that overall compiler complexity has grown.

>If you want the 2017 version of it, it is called Delphi.

Ok, this is something actually relevant.

>Go's compilation speed only surprises those developers that never used anything else beyond C and C++.

For me (tm), Go compilation speed has compared equal or favorably against C, C++, Java, C#, Rust at least.

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pjmlp 3113 days ago
> And beat 99% of other compilers today, meaning that overall compiler complexity has grown.

Which ones?

> For me (tm), Go compilation speed has compared equal or favorably against C, C++, Java, C#, Rust at least.

Since when does Go compile faster than Java and C#?

When I hit Ctrl+S my binary is already on the disk, thanks to incremental compiler integration on the IDE.

I have a full blown WPF application with multiple plugins, including data visualization, talking to Oracle and Postgres, total compilation time after check out 12s.

Eiffel, D, Nim, Jai are other fast compilation examples.

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