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		skulk on Dec 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ORC – Nim's new memory managment There's a lot of praise for ORC[1], but is there any discussion of the downsides of this approach? One potential downside is increased compile times, something that hasn't ever been a problem for Nim. However, I'm not sure what kind of load ORC puts on the compiler, and how that will scale to large projects. [1]: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/6483

planetis on Dec 8, 2020 [–]

I have switched to `--gc:arc`/`orc` for some time but I haven't noticed any difference in compilation speed.

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