[cpdt]

I'll look at writing that blog post soon then :)

Just did some proper testing on a reasonably complex project, looks like I was about an order of magnitude off (to be fair it was 2AM here at the time, and I wasn't reading the numbers right haha). 30-40ms is still fast enough that you don't notice for the most part though. For this specific project, it breaks down roughly like this:

- ~1ms to build the new MIR based on the editor state

- ~5ms to process/run passes on the MIR (this involves some funky graph traversal which could very likely be optimized a lot)

- ~12ms to generate LLVM IR

- ~14ms in the LLVM JIT

In a project that makes good use of groups (nodes that contain a surface inside and then expose some controls back out) I'd expect this to be lower, since we only need to perform those operations on the surfaces that change.

[gmueckl]

Hm, 12ms for the IR is longer than I would expect for such a translation step. Do you know whwre this time is being spent?

[cpdt]

Just had a look, and it turns out that's including running LLVM's optimizer as well, which takes roughly half the time. It's basically doing the equivalent of -O2 currently. That's probably more aggressive than what's needed, but I haven't taken the time to fine-tune it yet.

Other than that, you're right that it might be a bit high. There's very likely parts of the lowering code which can be optimized, I just haven't had the need to yet.