It's not like all the other EDA tools are really fast or not resource intensive. For smaller design firms I would think things like FireSim [1] would be a significant advantage.
I can imagine it is a disadvantage in other ways, i.e. it's only possible to do single phase positive edge synchronous design, which could be an impediment to high performance digital design.
But I wouldn't imagine that scala performance is particularly significant.
compared to what?
It's not like all the other EDA tools are really fast or not resource intensive. For smaller design firms I would think things like FireSim [1] would be a significant advantage.
I can imagine it is a disadvantage in other ways, i.e. it's only possible to do single phase positive edge synchronous design, which could be an impediment to high performance digital design.
But I wouldn't imagine that scala performance is particularly significant.
[1] https://fires.im