title: Java compile speed vs Scala compile speed
body: <p>I've been programming in Scala for a while and I like it but one thing I'm annoyed by is the time it takes to compile programs.  It's seems like a small thing but with Java I could make small changes to my program, click the run button in netbeans, and BOOM, it's running, and over time compiling in scala seems to consume a lot of time.  I hear that with many large projects a scripting language becomes very important because of the time compiling takes, a need that I didn't see arising when I was using Java.</p>
  
  <p>But I'm coming from Java which as I understand it, is faster than any other compiled language, and is fast because of the reasons I switched to Scala(It's a very simple language).  </p>
  
  <p>So I wanted to ask, can I make Scala compile faster and will scalac ever be as fast as javac.</p>