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Re: GCC 3.3, GCC 3.4
On Thursday 30 January 2003 02:21 pm, Neil Booth wrote:
> Benjamin Kosnik wrote:-
>
> > 3) Any kind of attempt at compile-time regressions or compile time
> > performance at all. Dropping the release criteria, or ignoring the
> > release criteria that deals with compile time performance is
> > unacceptable. Sane defaults in the garbage collector would be a big win
> > here.
>
> As I pointed out elsewhere, changing a GC default is simply papering
> over the problem; we're not really getting any faster.
>
> But it's worse than that - if someone later comes along with
> improvements that improve our algorithms and data structures (those are
> where the real problems lie), the new GC default is going to reduce or
> eliminate the impact of that improvement, an impact that would have been
> noticeable had the GC defaults not been changed, and the improvement
> is less likely to happen.
>
So, lets make part of the testing protocal: "disable GC"
My following this list does not date back to the 2.95.x era - so I don't
know "how it used to be done".
Other recent messages on the M-L mention various URL's with hints...
I have several machines collecting dust here;
they could be doing something useful -
if someone could contact me with details of
what and how you need things to be done.
Mike