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mention Dev desktops, to help with LLVM builds #1613

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Expand Up @@ -172,9 +172,11 @@ so let's go through each in detail.
Ideally the above instructions are pretty smooth, but here's some caveats to
keep in mind while going through them:

* LLVM bugs are hard to find, don't hesitate to ask for help! Bisection is
definitely your friend here (yes LLVM takes forever to build, yet bisection is
still your friend)
* LLVM bugs are hard to find, don't hesitate to ask for help!
Bisection is definitely your friend here
(yes LLVM takes forever to build, yet bisection is still your friend).
Note that you can make use of [Dev Desktops],
an initiative to provide remote access to powerful hardware to developers of Rust.
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* If you've got general questions, [wg-llvm] can help you out.
* Creating branches is a privileged operation on GitHub, so you'll need someone
with write access to create the branches for you most likely.
Expand All @@ -184,3 +186,4 @@ keep in mind while going through them:
[llvm/llvm-project repository]: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project
[`llvm-wrapper`]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/compiler/rustc_llvm/llvm-wrapper
[wg-llvm]: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/187780-t-compiler.2Fwg-llvm
[Dev Desktops]: https://forge.rust-lang.org/infra/docs/dev-desktop.html