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danieldk 8 minutes ago | link

>> As I've already said to someone else. This is about linking, not compilation. The rest of your comment is irrelevant to this discussion.

> And I am reacting to your grandparent, who was talking about compilation.

I'm fairly certain that that slow compile time is a combination of `compile + link` and the linking is probably a big part of the equation as well, just like it is in C and Go.

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Absolutely, I should have said 'build' rather than 'compile'. It's both compilation and linking.