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> The only major use case for cycles that I can think of is self-hosting compilers. Yup. In the build system for a self-hosting compiler I wrote I solved it us
by bjourne 6y ago
> The only major use case for cycles that I can think of is self-hosting compilers.
Yup. In the build system for a self-hosting compiler I wrote I solved it using an optional target. If the compiler is present, generate the boot code using it, else download the boot code from a site on the internet, do md5sum checking and bootstrap from that. In a good build system, modeling this is a piece of cake.