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The Talk Show With John Gruber

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The C Compiler's Slowness

The Swift language is relatively slow compared to most other compilers. It's just a tradeoff that you get a language that developers like more or even love and has these things. Just making the language nicer for developers almost always makes it harder for the compiler. There's precious few of those.

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