Fonts have a severe impact on build times

[tinygo-org]

Fonts have a severe impact on build times

[sago35]

I also get frustrated when building https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinyfont/blob/master/examples/pybadge/main.go on my windows laptop.

It might be better to use tinyfontgen on dev branch to create your own fonts.
You can use the bdf file as input to create a new font.
https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinyfont/tree/dev/cmd/tinyfontgen

[sago35]

source: c5a301b

ubuntu 20.04
ryzen 3700

$ git rev-parse HEAD
c5a301ba5c68fdebfcc94d01d3d596b3a0f367b3

$ time tinygo build -o app.hex --target wioterminal --size short ./examples/displays
   code    data     bss |   flash     ram
  11712   32692    6364 |   44404   39056

real    0m13.646s
user    0m16.695s
sys     0m0.595s

windows 10 (git-bash)
core i7-7600U

$ git rev-parse HEAD
c5a301ba5c68fdebfcc94d01d3d596b3a0f367b3

$ time tinygo build -o app.hex --target wioterminal --size short ./examples/displays/
   code    data     bss |   flash     ram
  11696   32692    6364 |   44388   39056

real    0m54.952s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.015s

[deadprogram]

TinyGo caches things a lot better these days. Also compiler is faster overall than it was. Can we close this issue now in favor of new ones as needed?

[conejoninja]

I vote for closing inactive issues, we could take a look at this :
https://docs.github.com/en/github-ae@latest/actions/managing-issues-and-pull-requests/closing-inactive-issues

And close them by being inactive for X months (instead of days as proposed in the link).
In case this is still an issue (after almost three years) it could be reopened.