They should be compiling their own compilers too.
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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how do you think gcc and llvm are installed on a gentoo system?
Oh god. This is giving me flash backs to when i installed gentoo and i had to compite llvm. It took like 72h.
Then let's go another step further, compiling the compiler that compiles the compiler, aka compilerception π€£π€£ββ.
I'm going to date myself here, but when I was in high school in the late '90s, a friend of mine introduced me to Linux and helped me get it set up. He gave me the distro he used at the time: Debian. He explained to me how Debian, unlike other distros, compiles everything it installs, which is why it takes so long. I recall him explaining that this would make things run better in some way (but I was a teenager and don't remember too clearly). The install took hours. Many hours. I don't remember what kind of computer I had, it was a Pentium something.
There was such a sort of romance and intrigue to Linux back then. It was so challenging to get working, the desktop environments were janky AF, getting some drivers working was like a day's work. I miss it, though.
I know its a meme, but I am on a Laptop with a ryzen 5 3500U and it only takes 1,5h
Just built the nightly for fun on my 5950X and it took about 35 minutes.