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Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this recreating a thing that used to exist? I have memories of being told of a compiler older than GCC that could compile itself using… I want to say a bash script. It took forever to run because you had to run the script which of course was slow, and then it output a completely unoptimized compiler. And if memory serves that output didn’t have any of the optimization logic in it. So you had to compile it again to get the optimizer passes to be compiled in, then compile it again to get a fast compiler (self optimization).


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