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lrvick • yesterday at 7:34 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Rust requires python and perl and musl and openssl and 80% of the entire wall time of building the whole tree.

Rust is the single most expensive thing to bootstrap in any given linux distro.

It is the thing you need mold the most for to speed things up.


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jiehong • yesterday at 9:11 PM

Hopefully, someone can do some work on decreasing the requirements needed to build rust itself and ease bootstrapping.

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