Zig Builds Are Getting Faster
a day ago
- #Zig
- #Compilation
- #Performance
- Zig's primary goal has been faster compile times, with significant work done to achieve this.
- Zig 0.15.1 shows real-world improvements in build times compared to Zig 0.14.
- Build script compilation time reduced from 7 seconds to 1.7 seconds in Zig 0.15.1.
- Full uncached Ghostty binary build time improved from 41 seconds to 32 seconds.
- Incremental build times for Ghostty executable decreased from 19 seconds to 16 seconds.
- Incremental build times for libghostty-vt dropped from 2.884 seconds to 975 milliseconds.
- Self-hosted x86_64 backend improvements are expected to further reduce build times.
- Future incremental compilation support could bring build times down to milliseconds.
- Zig's focus on compile times is yielding tangible benefits for developers.