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- There should be a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers) - The first question everyone has is 'where did the first compiler come from?' We should link to https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/ef75860a0a72f79f97216f8aaa5b388d98da6480/src/boot, even though it...

Oh hmm I see there's a separate `building/bootstrap.md` page. Maybe most of this section could be moved there?

> find out if there are other reasons to use query system beyond incremental I'm interested in helping with this, I had to mess with queries a lot for https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/73566.

@igaray FYI I think @rylev has already been working on this a fair bit (at least, they've definitely opened a bunch of issues :laughing:)

@camelid that requires you to know ahead of time how to find the compiler docs, and which modules are relevant. This would let you say 'give me all the relevant...

@igaray what do you think?

Personally I like to talk to contributors on Zulip so I can give feedback faster. Trying to have a conversation on Github is painful because you often end up having...

I expect something like `env RUSTC="valgrind $(rustup which rustc)"` should work in most cases, or if that syntax doesn't work then a wrapper script that does the same.

There are autogenerated docs at https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nightly-rustc/rustc_resolve/def_collector/struct.DefCollector.html.

https://sdleffler.github.io/RustTypeSystemTuringComplete/ has some interesting details about how unification works fwiw