alt Hacker NewsYou missed "without optimizations on".
This is important, because most often during development you want fast compilation times more than you want fast code.
You missed "without optimizations on".
This is important, because most often during development you want fast compilation times more than you want fast code.
That still isn't a paradox. Furthermore it still makes sense: a language designed to generate the fastest code has constructs that cannot be compiled quickly, even without optimizations.
But some of it is implementation problems.