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		hgs3 on May 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is Swift so slow (timeout) in compiling this c... Huge literals do occur in programmatically generated source code. I'm working on a project now where I generate C source code with large, static tables. Paraphs this is not a common scenario for Swift's target use cases.

d0100 on May 30, 2023 [–]

I reported once that the Go compiler would oom when I had an array literal with quite a few entries

It might have just been a few kb of text but I couldn't compile even with 16gb ram

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