Hi. I really like Crystal and had a few questions. Are the major contributors to compilation times known ? What’s the typical analysis process that core contributors use to discern these contributors ? (Profilers ? Built-in trace etc ?) Is type inference a significant contributor ? If so, …

Compile with the --stats flag and see for yourself what it is that take time. But generally sepaking, in development mode it is the type checking that is the main cost, while in release mode it will be code generation and optimization.

What are the technical reasons for Crystal's relatively slow compilation speed?

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What are the technical reasons for Crystal's relatively slow compilation speed?

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