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		machinekob on June 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Swift's type checker is so slow Jai is a lot slower atm than at 2018, and feature-wise it is closer to C than to Swift with 2 different purposes. Swift compiler time is spend mostly on LLVM stuff and it isn't much slower than other modern LLVM languages (Rust/Julia etc.) <ofc. this don't count this very specific complex type checks that are super slow>

christophilus on June 22, 2024 [–]

Isn’t Jai also LLVM backed? I thought it was, though I haven’t followed it closely.

Edit: random forums on the interwebs do seem to suggest it is LLVM backed.

machinekob on June 22, 2024 | [–]

They have both llvm and custom x64 backend (at least partially, i think they started with only custom x64 backend)

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