I'm honestly kind of surprised someone's actually gone through the effort of figuring that out, and I'm afraid to ask how long it takes to build the whole chain.
There used to be a file that contained the SHA-1 hashes of the entire bootstrap chain; this is before we went with "rust 1.x builds with rust 1.(x - 1)". so i just counted. About 300 of them, three builds per bootstrap chain, plus some extra for all of the versions since we switched over.
I don't think anyone has actually done so, so I'm not sure how long, but probably a very, very long time. And you can't parallel it.
I don't think anyone has actually done so, so I'm not sure how long, but probably a very, very long time. And you can't parallel it.