Disabled in a recent PR the builder is routinely hitting its 3 hour time limit, tracked at https://alexcrichton.github.io/rust-ci-timing-tracker/#series=x86_64-mingw
For a win in build times we're going to disable debug/llvm assertions on this builder, but this issue is intended to track re-enabling these if we ever get infrastructure that's a bit speedier or can better handle the slowdown.
List of all the builders where assertions were disabled:
For posterity, this had a pretty massive impact on CI times for the thre platforms that we disabled debug/llvm assertions for:

(currently waiting on a potential upgrade to our appveyor builder machines, maybe happening soonish)
Much has happened - we've migrated to azure in the meantime and our builds have got even slower, but there is potential to get 4 core machines there. Until then, this is still on hold.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/64517 also disabled LLVM assertions on the following builders:
Triage: Nothing has materially changed; we still don't have the time budget to re-enable these. Perhaps when the builders gain more cores.
We'll probably want to re-enable those if we switch to GitHub Actions, as we have the time budget there.
With GHA, we should now have capacity to do this on CI. I will be posting a PR doing so soon.
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With GHA, we should now have capacity to do this on CI. I will be posting a PR doing so soon.