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Re:Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself by pcwalton on Saturday April 16, 2022 @03:57PM (#31055582)
Huh? That's not true at all. It took over 30 minutes to compile the self-hosted Rust compiler with the OCaml compiler, when rustc was far smaller than it is today. rustboot was agonizingly slow, and one of the main reasons why I was so anxious to switch to rustc back in those days was compilation speed.

I was there and had to suffer through this more than virtually anyone else :)

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Re:Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself by geophertz on Sunday April 17, 2022 @08:11PM (#31065847)
My source: https://pingcap.com/blog/rust-compilation-model-calamity#boo...

> 7 femto-bunnies - rustboot building Rust prior to being retired

> 49 kilo-hamsters - rustc building Rust immediately after rustboot's retirement

> 188 giga-sloths - rustc building Rust in 2020

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