I may be old - But what is abnormal at 10mins compilation time? Looks perfectly fine to me - I still remember hours of compilation…
Jan > On 22 Mar 2017, at 21:03, piotr gorzelany via swift-users > <swift-users@swift.org> wrote: > > Hi, I hope I reached the right mailing list to ask a question about tooling. > > Can somebody from the compiler or Xcode team share some tips on how to > improve compilation times of larger Swift projects? > > I am an iOS developer and the largest issue my team has with Swift so far is > that when the project gets semi large (~30 000 lines) the compilation times > start to be high (~10 minutes from clean). This is a MAJOR downside since iOS > development oftentimes requires rapid changes to UI or logic. Every person of > my team compiles a project at least 10 times a day to test new features or > functionalities. When compilation times start to be higher than 10 minutes > that gets us to ~1.5h a day of developer time spend just on compiling. Not to > mention the focus lost when this is happening. > > I know the Swift Evolution list is buzzing with new ideas and features but > from my experience the compilation times is a CRITICAL thing to improve in > the next Swift release since it cost real money to waste all those developer > hours. Just think of all the hours lost on compiling across all Swift devs > worldwide and you will get to probably dozens of thousand of dev hours a day. > > Is the core compiler team going to address compilation performance in the > next release? > > Maybe there is an existing solution to long compilation times that we don't > know of? It would be great if anybody could share. > I was thinking maybe of dividing the app into multiple frameworks since I > think frameworks are compiled only once only on change? > > Regards, > Piotr > _______________________________________________ > swift-users mailing list > swift-users@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users _______________________________________________ swift-users mailing list swift-users@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users
