Comment by logicchains
5 hours ago
It's not generics making Rust compilation slow; Zig has monomorphized generics but is quite fast to compile.
5 hours ago
It's not generics making Rust compilation slow; Zig has monomorphized generics but is quite fast to compile.
Monomorphized generics alone don't do it, but pervasive use of monomorphized generics definitely can make binaries huge and make compile times slow. Zig may avoid it generally, but C++ doesn't.
(Even Go's generics did slow down compile times a bit at first.)
It's a bunch of things. LLVM is one of them. Zig moved away from it for reasons.