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		ackfoobar on June 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are in... That typeclass resolution can encode some heavy computation, the example being n-queens in the article.

tines on June 12, 2024 [–]

That's only the case when you turn on the "enable arbitrary computation in typeclasses" flag, so I'd say it's not much of a worry.

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