Hasty Briefsbeta

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.