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		judge2020 on Dec 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: V (Vlang) 0.2 The nearly 1 second compilation is impressive, but why claim it has 0.2 second compile time when using a cache? It doesn’t represent the real-world time it would take to compile v or another program from fresh in order to install it.

amedvednikov on Dec 22, 2020 | [–]

-usecache here means that vlib is cached. It will be the default in 0.2.1.

The entire V compiler is built from scratch.

tomcam on Dec 22, 2020 | [–]

I often compile projects before the cache expires...

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