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		saagarjha on Feb 2, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple is open sourcing Swift Build Parsing IR and lowering it is not the reason why compiling Swift is slow.

fastball on Feb 3, 2025 [–]

What is the reason Swift compile times are slow?

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