Speed up Xcode Swift build times

Question

As my project has grown over the past year, so have its build times. Over the last few months it\'s gone from 4 minutes to around 7 (time includes GitHub pull, unit tests, etc).

Answer 1

Checkout this great post: https://github.com/fastred/Optimizing-Swift-Build-Times

Some contents included:

• Type checking of functions and expressions
• Slowly compiling files
• Build active architecture only
• dSYM generation
• Whole Module Optimization
• Third-party dependencies
• Modularization
• XIBs
• Xcode Schemes
• Use the new Xcode build system
• Enable concurrent Swift build tasks
• Showing build times in Xcode