[papsosouid]

>Quick searches turn up slow compile times as a definite issue with generics

Where? I can find nothing of the sort. And given that we have proof otherwise (compare D to go for example) it seems likely that you are choosing to interpret "some languages made their compilers slower" with "parametric polymorphism must make a compiler slower".

[azth]

On the Go mailing list I suppose :) They (the authors) seem that they did not research this issue deeply enough as you mentioned.