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		mitchellh 77 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zig builds are getting faster It only uses the LLVM backend for release builds. For debug builds Zig now defaults to self-hosted (on supported platforms, only x86_64 right now). Debug builds are directly in the hot path of testing your software (this includes building test binaries), and the number of iterations you do on a debug build are multiple orders of magnitude higher than release builds, so this is a good tradeoff.

brabel 77 days ago [–]

The post says the llvm is used in all builds they measured since the self hosted backend still can’t compile ghostty.

dundarious 76 days ago | [–]

Incorrect, the last build is substantially faster and is using the "native" debug backend.

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