I tried that before responding and I found that the stdlib build time to be 
unchanged (still about 15 minutes).


> On Aug 6, 2017, at 17:25, Michael Gottesman <mgottes...@apple.com> wrote:
> 
> You need an additional flag for the stdlib. —debug-swift-stdlib
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Aug 6, 2017, at 1:50 PM, David Zarzycki <zarzy...@icloud.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 6, 2017, at 16:16, Michael Gottesman <mgottes...@apple.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Aug 6, 2017, at 11:11 AM, David Zarzycki via swift-dev 
>>>> <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> Unless I’m missing a build-script flag, it seems to me that compiling the 
>>>> Swift stdlib with the unoptimized debug swift compiler takes about 15 
>>>> minutes on a fast machine.
>>> 
>>> I am assuming that you mean a debug swift compiler building an optimized 
>>> stdlib?
>> 
>> Hi Michael,
>> 
>> I’m building the debug swift compiler via ./utils/build-script -r 
>> —debug-swift. I assume, perhaps wrongly, that implies a debug stdlib.
>> 
>>> 
>>>> Other than forcing the type checker to be optimized, what if any tricks 
>>>> can I use to building the stdlib faster with the debug compiler? Is there 
>>>> a way to tell Clang to enable the inliner and only the inliner during -O0 
>>>> builds? I have an anecdotal experiment[1] that suggests that this would 
>>>> yield appreciably faster Swift stdlib builds with the debug compiler (and 
>>>> selfishly speaking, I can tolerate the minor impact on debugging that 
>>>> inlining does to otherwise unoptimized code).
>>> 
>>> Are building LLVM in release + Swift in debug? I.e.:
>>> 
>>> —release-debuginfo --debug-swift --force-optimized-typechecker
>> 
>> Yes, with the exception that I cannot use —force-optimized-typechecker 
>> because I’m hacking on the type checker. Otherwise, this is what I’m doing 
>> to make debug builds go as fast as possible:
>> 
>> ./utils/build-script \
>>   --llvm-targets-to-build X86 \
>>   --skip-ios --skip-tvos --skip-watchos \
>>   --skip-build-benchmarks true \
>>   --build-swift-static-stdlib false \
>>   --build-swift-static-sdk-overlay false \
>>   --build-swift-dynamic-sdk-overlay false \
>>   --build-swift-stdlib-unittest-extra false \
>>   --extra-cmake-options \\-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-Werror=switch \
>>   -r \
>>   --debug-swift  \
>>   "$@"
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> Dave
>>>> 
>>>> [1] – If one force inlines LLVM’s casting logic and associated callbacks 
>>>> (like classof() and getKind()), then the Swift stdlib builds 18% faster on 
>>>> my machine with the debug Swift compiler. One can imagine how much faster 
>>>> the whole stdlib would compile if all trivial functions were inlined 
>>>> automatically.
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