Build Time Improvements in Xamarin.iOS 6.4 Xamarin.iOS 6.4 has significant build time improvements, and there is now an option to only send updated bits of code to the device. See for yourself: (source: xamarin.com) Read more and learn how to enable incremental build in Rolf’s post. Evolve 2013 Video An updated and expanded version of … Read more
One thing that slows down the VC++ compiler is if you have a header file that initializes concrete instances of non-trival const value types. You may see this happen with constants of type std::string or GUIDs. It affects both compilation and link time. For a single dll, this caused a 10x slowdown. It helps if … Read more
Well, it turned out that Rob Napier was right. It was one single file (actually one method) that was causing the compiler to go berzek. Now don’t get me wrong. Swift does recompile all your files each time, but the great thing now, is that Apple added real-time compilation feedback over the files it compiles, … Read more