From: marcov@snail.stack.nl   
      
   On 2009-05-19, armencho@gmail.com  wrote:   
   > What is the importance with a compiler that is able to compile itself?   
   > As far as I can see from my limited wisdom, it is not a requirement   
   > and perhaps does not even prove anything substantial about the   
   > compiler?   
      
   Mostly an extra testsuite. Both from a "keep it working" perspective, as   
   from an usage perspective. It is a pretty serious codebase in that   
   particular exact dialect of the langauge, and early on often the largest.   
      
   Also if the runtime lib is written in itself, it is also a kind of user   
   testing by particularly skilled users. Many lowlevel extensions in our   
   compiler were added because the runtime lib implementation benefited from   
   it.   
      
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