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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 tod

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 :)

geophertz 5y ago
My source: https://pingcap.com/blog/rust-compilation-model-calamity#bootstrapping-rust 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