13:42:49beachIn my current task of redoing the bootstrapping procedure from scratch, I am roughly in the middle of phase 3. So far, this improved technique has allowed me to remove more special-purpose code and several warts that I felt I had to introduce because of bootstrapping.
14:04:30heisigThere is nothing like a good rewrite :)
14:08:31beachI agree. It was painful to start it, but as I see things improve, it gets easier.
14:09:38beachAlso, it's kind of normal, nobody (including me) has done this before, so it is not surprising that I didn't arrive at the best technique right away.