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The more impressive part is: that manages to self-preserve across hundreds of Rust language/compiler versions with wildly varying designs and semantics all the
by Gankro 10y ago
The more impressive part is: that manages to self-preserve across hundreds of Rust language/compiler versions with wildly varying designs and semantics all the way up to today's version.
- steveklabnik 10y agoNB:hundreds is literal here. A little over 300 last I checked.
- Gankro 10y agoAbout this many: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/235d77457d80b549dad3ac36d94f235208a1eafb/src/snapshots.txt https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/235d77457d80b549dad3a... (This file is no longer in master because the compiler bootstraps from the previous stable release; too lazy to accurately isolate the last time it was updated)
- steveklabnik 10y agoYup, plus since you need to compile three times on each one, to do the bootstrapping...