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recommend trying to build on a Raspberry Pi :P
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- x86 and ARM are both supported (TODO: confirm)
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- Recommended 30GB of free disk space; otherwise, you will have to keep
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clearing incremental caches.
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- Recommended >=30GB of free disk space; otherwise, you will have to keep
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clearing incremental caches. More space is better, the compiler is a bit of a
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hog; it's a problem we are aware of.
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- Recommended >=8GB RAM.
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- Recommended >=2 cores; more cores really helps.
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- You will need an internet connection to build; the bootstrapping process
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This will take a while, especially the first time. Be wary of accidentally
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touching or formatting the compiler, as `./x.py` will try to recompile it.
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To run the compiler's UI test (the bulk of the test suite):
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To run the compiler's UI test suite (the bulk of the test suite):
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# UI tests
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refactorings, and other user-invisible changes. The next few sections talk
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about exceptions to this rule.
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Also, note that is perfectly acceptable to open WIP PRs or GitHub [Draft
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PRs][draft]. Some people prefer to do this so they can get feedback along the
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way or share their code with a collaborator. Others do this so they can utilize
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the CI to build and test their PR (e.g. if you are developing on a laptop).
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[draft]: https://github.blog/2019-02-14-introducing-draft-pull-requests/
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### New Features
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Rust has strong backwards-compatibility guarantees. Thus, new features can't

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