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 # The Rust Programming Language
 
 # The Rust Programming Language
 

-Rust is a fast systems programming language that guarantees
-memory safety and offers painless concurrency ([no data races]).
-It does not employ a garbage collector and has minimal runtime overhead.
+This is the main source code repository for [Rust]. It contains the compiler, standard library,
+and documentation.

 
 

-This repo contains the code for the compiler (`rustc`), as well
-as standard libraries, tools and documentation for Rust.
-
-[no data races]: http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/10/Fearless-Concurrency.html
+[Rust]: https://www.rust-lang.org

 
 ## Quick Start
 
 
 ## Quick Start
 


@@ -139,7 +135,7 @@ Snapshot binaries are currently built and tested on several platforms:
 You may find that other platforms work, but these are our officially
 supported build environments that are most likely to work.
 
 You may find that other platforms work, but these are our officially
 supported build environments that are most likely to work.
 

-Rust currently needs about 1.5 GiB of RAM to build without swapping; if it hits
+Rust currently needs between 600MiB and 1.5GiB to build, depending on platform. If it hits

 swap, it will take a very long time to build.
 
 There is more advice about hacking on Rust in [CONTRIBUTING.md].
 swap, it will take a very long time to build.
 
 There is more advice about hacking on Rust in [CONTRIBUTING.md].