Comment by OtomotO

It's not. It's just doing way more work than many other compilers, due to a sane type system.

Personally I don't care anymore, since I do hotpatching:

https://lib.rs/crates/subsecond

Zig is faster, but then again, Zig isn't memory save, so personally I don't care. It's an impressive language, I love the syntax, the simplicity. But I don't trust myself to keep all the memory relevant invariants in my head anymore as I used to do many years ago. So Zig isn't for me. Simply not the target audience.