> Nim compilation process took an additional 702 ms
That's horrifyingly slow for a compiler. The author mentioned "modern languages look like Python but run as fast as C", which is a common promise those languages make that never really materialize except for a few very happy path cases they heavily optmised the language for. Julia, for example, makes this promise too, but compiles even slower than that and takes ridiculous amounts of RAM even for hello world.
Did the author post the data set they used for the examples? Would be nice to try it out on a few languages to see how fast that can compile and run on a mature language like Common Lisp (which is just as easy to write) or even node.js.
That's horrifyingly slow for a compiler. The author mentioned "modern languages look like Python but run as fast as C", which is a common promise those languages make that never really materialize except for a few very happy path cases they heavily optmised the language for. Julia, for example, makes this promise too, but compiles even slower than that and takes ridiculous amounts of RAM even for hello world.
Did the author post the data set they used for the examples? Would be nice to try it out on a few languages to see how fast that can compile and run on a mature language like Common Lisp (which is just as easy to write) or even node.js.