I agree that the benchmark should be run for much longer to get a useful result.
But why does Swift have a long startup time in the first place? Shouldn’t it start near instantly like the C and Rust programs?
But why does Swift have a long startup time in the first place? Shouldn’t it start near instantly like the C and Rust programs?
echo 'print("hello world")' > hello.swift && swiftc hello.swift -O -o hello
time ./hello
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