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Re: [PATCH 0/6] Conversion of gimple types to C++ inheritance (v3)
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
- To: Bernd Schmidt <bernds at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat dot com>, Andrew MacLeod <amacleod at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 12:50:56 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Conversion of gimple types to C++ inheritance (v3)
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> Maybe we need to revisit it? As one of those who were not in favour of
> the C++ move, can I ask you guys to step back for a moment and think
> about - what do all of these changes buy us, exactly? Imagine the state
> at the end, where everything is converted and supposedly the temporary
> ugliness is gone, what have we gained over the code as it is now?
Without going as far as revisiting the decision, I'd like to ask whether the
impact of the recent changes on the speed of the compiler has been evaluated.
I didn't conduct real measurements but bootstrap times on mainline, which
were slightly increasing as usual over the course of the year, started to
increase at a faster pace over the last couple of months, at least for me.
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Eric Botcazou