Will build times get slower during development?

Haxe
#1

I’m fairly new to openfl and am coming from Java + LibGDX + Linux and wanted something to replace Java. So I’m running openfl test neko or openfl build neko and it takes around 10 seconds just loading a bitmap image. I tried performing the bitmap loading and rendering thousands of times with a for loop and the build time stays about the same. I’m not used to this long of a build time but am willing to take it if it doesn’t get any worse.

Is build time likely to get much longer over time? Is there a way to maybe shorten the build time? openfl test linux was horribly wrong and it seems this is my other option (flash wont run as a game on linux and i haven’t found a workaround).

#2

The build time varies on the platform, but in my experience, is generally much faster than Java.

HTML5 is the fastest, then Flash, then Neko, then C++, except that C++ caches files when it compiles, so the second time you compile it tends to be much faster, maybe even faster than some other targets.

#3

HTML5 is taking the same amount of time as Neko did.

#4

Okay

In general, the HTML5 compile time should remain stable, even for a larger project

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