Alex Griffin <a...@ajgrf.com> skribis: > On Thu, May 5, 2016, at 08:35 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> >> Yeah it’s OK to do it in the order: write the package bootstrapped from >> the binary blob, and then work on bootstrapping it from OCaml. > > I do not think that bootstrapping Rust from OCaml is a practical goal. > When you guys have talked about bootstrapping gcc from an older version, > I don't think it has involved even a dozen gcc versions, let alone 319!
If it really has to be 319 versions of Rust, then I agree. I thought/hoped that it would in fact be just a few of them. Andy Wingo <wi...@igalia.com> skribis: > Also FWIW, I think in the future a sane bootstrap is probably more > likely from a MIR interpreter (something like this but implemented from > another language: https://github.com/tsion/miri/tree/master/src). Yeah, though MIR it not source (not the “preferred form”), AIUI. Thanks, Ludo’.
