On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:16:41PM -0700, Patrick Walton wrote: > * Rust builds itself three times for bootstrapping. This is > unavoidable as long as Rust is bootstrapped.
GCC also builds itself three times for bootstrapping; like rustc, it's written in the language that it compiles. GCC can be built without bootstrapping for development (or to use as a cross-compiler), but a successful bootstrap is required as part of testing. So I don't know that it's entirely fair to criticize Rust for this aspect of the compilation time. (It would be nice to have --disable-bootstrap, though.) --Jed _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
