>> Man, that's one hell of a complicated system!
> 
> How long does it take to run both compilation stages followed by all the 
> unit tests?

How fast is your PC?

It's kind of like asking how long it takes to render SKYVASE.POV; it 
depends. ;-)

On my ancient laptop, with it's single-core 32-bit processor clocked at 
less than 2 GHz, it took about 2 hours:

30 minutes to compile stage1 using stage0 + stage0-libs.
30 minutes to compile stage1-libs using stage1.
30 minutes to compile stage2 using state1 + stage1-libs.
15 minutes building the documentation files. (They're embedded in the 
source code as comments.)
45 minutes to run all tests.

You can check the output of the actual buildbots yourself if you like:

http://darcs.haskell.org/buildbot/

It's not very intuitive, but... looks like the test suit contains about 
2,000 files, when produce 9,000 tests (taking into account that some 
tests can be run multiple ways - through the compiler, through the 
interpretter, with debugging on, with debugging off, with profiling on, 
etc.)

Looks like the whole process takes several hours on the buildbots too.

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