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by foldr 2851 days ago
>So you hardly know the languages

No, I know all of the languages that you mentioned except CLU. And since I don't think there are even any practical CLU implementations available for modern hardware, I'm not sure how you are able to compare CLU compile times to Go compile times. Are you maintaining a legacy CLU codebase or something?

Now, if there are scientific comparisons available, I'll happily defer to those. But unless you spend inordinate amounts of your time comparing compile times between languages, I doubt that you have any scientific info to go on either.
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pjmlp 2851 days ago
> I don't know about D. I've heard good things about Delphi's compile times

Doesn't look like actually knowing them to me.

> Are you maintaining a legacy CLU codebase or something?

No, just you are apparently stating that a CLU compiler developed to be usable in 1971 hardware will run slower than Go on 2018 hardware, which doesn't make much sense.

Talking numbers, D was taking 1.24s to compile its complete standard library in 2010, (too lazy to try out the latest version) including the piles of template code that it has.

https://digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/D_compilati...

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foldr 2850 days ago
> Talking numbers, D was taking 1.24s to compile its complete standard library in 2010, (too lazy to try out the latest version) including the piles of template code that it has.

I followed in the instructions for building Phobos on the wiki here at https://wiki.dlang.org/Building_under_Posix:

    real	0m12.269s
    user	0m12.896s
    sys	        0m2.150s
Quite a lot of that time appears to be spent linking. I wonder if the post on the mailing list was reporting the literal compile time, rather than the build time?

It was a bit difficult to find a go project of similar size that was easy to build. The backend component of limetext is about 10k LOC compared to 35k for Phobos. When I do a ‘time go build -o foo’ in go/src/github.com/limetext/backend, I get the following:

    real	0m0.163s
    user	0m0.140s
    sys	0m0.207s
Multiply that by 3 plus a bit to compensate for the LOC difference, and it's still pretty good.

Still no idea what you are on getting with regard to CLU. We don't have any info on how fast it compiled.

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