Three years ago I tried putting constants for a matrix (I think it was 1024x80 or sth like that) into a strongly typed array of floats. Still took the compiler 30mins to compile it. In the end I split the matrix up in rows, with each row being one variable, and a final variable to concatenate the rows. No typing hint whatsoever helped.
Yeah this one's real strange to me. I feel like it used to be as simple as the [int] definition people suggest in the thread.
I don't miss Xcode too much. IIRC I built some custom script using arcanda dropped by Apple employees to output per-function build times. It was great! I knew exactly what functions were slow. But now I am old and lazy lol.
Big wtf moment.