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An aerial view of a highway bypass lane cutting past a long line of traffic — the shortcut this pitch takes around Swift's type checker
Swift SwiftPM

The Fix for SwiftPM's 200-Second Compile Bug Just Landed. It Skips the Type Checker Entirely.

A new Swift Forums pitch replaces embedInCode's byte-array literals with linked object files and Span<UInt8>, turning a 70-second, 7.2GB build into a 1.6-second one. Here's how it works and why one reviewer already isn't sure it's worth the complexity.

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Stacked shipping containers, neatly indexed and labeled — the kind of file system SwiftPM's embedded resources still don't have
Swift SwiftPM

SwiftPM Embeds Resources as Byte Arrays. One 165KB File Can Take 200 Seconds to Compile.

A fresh Swift Forums pitch wants to give SwiftPM's .embedInCode a real, path-preserving EmbeddedFileSystem — fixing both its lack of directory structure and a documented type-checker bug where a single resource file bloats debug build times by minutes.

6 min read
Rows of server storage racks, the kind of content-addressed cache infrastructure SwiftPM is about to borrow from
Swift Swift Evolution

SwiftPM Is Getting Real Compilation Caching. My Five Cold Builds a Day Are About to Get Cheaper.

SE-0547 brings CAS-backed compilation caching to SwiftPM: content-addressed cache keys instead of timestamps, with reported 67-75% faster clean builds. Here's what it actually configures, and why it matters more for worktrees and CI than for your everyday edit-build-run loop.

7 min read
A close-up black and white photograph of a mechanical stopwatch — the kind a track coach would hold, not a Rolex — face-on, hands frozen mid-second.
Xcode iOS Development

Build Time Optimization for the Solo iOS Developer Running 5+ Apps

Day 30 of the 30-day iOS series. Real numbers, real DerivedData chaos, and the three things that actually move the needle on Xcode build times when you're maintaining multiple apps on one machine.

9 min read