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Mark Sibly
2 years, 5 months ago.
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Is there any way to speed up compile times?
It takes half a minute to compile my little test game for Windows (which takes about a second in BlitzMax)
And emscripten takes over a minute to compile.I’m on Windows 10.
SSD with 550MB/s read and 520MB/s write.
8 Cores at 4.5GHz.
It feels like things should be faster or am I just stupid?
Do I need to enable something to speed things up, or is this only cause M2 isn’t complete yet?For me only the first time compile takes long, from then on it seems like only modified files get updated and compiling takes only a second or two. But I’m on MacOS, so the compiler is different. Haven’t tried on Windows yet.
After the first compile (and a bit of the second) the biggest speed issue is the linker, and the mingw linker is not fast.
I suspect adding support for msvc tools will help and I’ll look into it when I get some spare time. But personally speaking, things are usable enough for me, esp. when compared to monkey1 with largish projects (like transcc which was a huge PITA to modify).
The emscripten linker *is* slow and there’s nothing that can be done there. Wasm looks to be a lot faster, but that’s a while off yet.
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