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Yeah. It gets annoying when you just want to write one blog post, and you feel like it shouldn't have to recompile everything else.

I profiled it once, and most of the time was spent shelling out to python to do the syntax highlighting.

Worth mentioning that we were using 0.10, took around 1 minute on a brand new MBP. Worse on older machines.

Enabling LSI for related posts made it worse.

Maybe its fixed on newer versions.

Hey, we're using jekyll (0.11.x) to generate http://dev.af83.com/ which is about 320 posts. It always takes less than 30secs on my laptop (Lenovo X220).

Octopress has a "rack watch" task that updates the code in realtime, not sure if it comes with jekyll too. It's super fast here.

If hosting on heroku, you can use a buildpack which will do all the compiling server side