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0 pointszimpenfish3y ago0 comments

I'm assuming this must be for huge projects?

I just compiled my toy project (detecting anomalous parity in integers) in nim 1.6.6 (4.23s), go 1.17.7 (2.43s to create both aarch64 and x86_64 binaries), zig 0.8.0-dev.1140 (2.04s to create aarch64 and x86_64 binaries) and C via clang 13.1.6 (0.14s).

nim's compilation is 175% of Go, 207% of zig, and 3021% of clang.

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machinekob3y ago

how are u compiling (optimization, custom compilation flags etc.?) In my case https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer big project compile under your 4.2s so or you have like 10k+ lines of codes with macros or you just pass some debug flags to compiler :D

zimpenfishOP3y ago

Compilation command is:

    nim c -d:release --passC:"-flto" --gc:markAndSweep --out:ap ap.nim

I will add that once it's been run a few times, it does go a bit quicker (down to ~0.7s) but the Go also gets quicker (down to 0.28s for two outputs when files are cached.)

nimmer3y ago

No, even small files. You must have issues with your setup. Are you sure your compiler is not built in debug mode?

zimpenfishOP3y ago

How would I check that? I installed it through homebrew via https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/... which doesn't seem to mention debug mode anywhere?

dom963y ago

Run `nim -v`, if it's not in debug mode you should see "active boot switches: -d:release".

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Rochus3y ago

Thanks for the data; that's what I call an elegant rebuttal.

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0 pointszimpenfish3y ago0 comments

I'm assuming this must be for huge projects?

nim's compilation is 175% of Go, 207% of zig, and 3021% of clang.

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machinekob3y ago

zimpenfishOP3y ago

Compilation command is:

    nim c -d:release --passC:"-flto" --gc:markAndSweep --out:ap ap.nim

I will add that once it's been run a few times, it does go a bit quicker (down to ~0.7s) but the Go also gets quicker (down to 0.28s for two outputs when files are cached.)

nimmer3y ago

No, even small files. You must have issues with your setup. Are you sure your compiler is not built in debug mode?

zimpenfishOP3y ago

How would I check that? I installed it through homebrew via https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/... which doesn't seem to mention debug mode anywhere?

dom963y ago

Run `nim -v`, if it's not in debug mode you should see "active boot switches: -d:release".

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Rochus3y ago

Thanks for the data; that's what I call an elegant rebuttal.

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