Xcode 14 beta 2 came with WWDC’22 and one of the highlights of the upcoming Xcode is faster builds. What’s new in Xcode mentions that Xcode 14 can be up to 25% faster, mostly due to improved parallelism. For testing this out, I looked for a large open source iOS app. WordPress for iOS is available on GitHub, and it was pretty easy to set up the local development setup.
My 16″ MBP is from 2019 and has 2,3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 with 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 RAM. Benchmarking involved in deleting derived data, letting the Mac idle a couple of minutes to cool a bit, and then building the project. Also, I switched between Xcodes after every build. Let’s look into results.
| Xcode 13.4.1 | Xcode 14 beta 2 |
|---|---|
| 293 | 314 |
| 288 | 317 |
| 279 | 318 |
Results are in, and I have to admit that this is something I did not expect to see. I was expecting to see Xcode 14 doing much better compared to Xcode 13, but it is actually the other way around. Probably this project has many ways to improve the build times and making it better to use the improved parallelism in Xcode 14, but at the moment it turned out to be around 10% slower instead. Fascinating.
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