Re: GCC 3.3, GCC 3.4

[Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>]

Mike Stump wrote:-

> Yes, it really is faster.  It really is better.  Consider for example 

I'm interested in improving the quality of GCC.  Your statment above
indicates you're interested in pointing to a number and saying "look,
it's lower", regardless of what that means long-term.  Hell, let's
not free anything at all and turn GC off altogether; GCC would be faster
for 90% of files I imagine.

We're going to disagree; there's not much else to say.  I know what
you are referring to, and you know what I'm referring to; after all
neither of us is stupid.  I really want to see GCC getting better in an
undisputable sense, because I care deeply about GCC.  The improvements
you're justifying are short-term gratification, but make the genuine
improvements harder to develop, hard to find, and less easy to justify.
I don't think that's a good thing for the project long-term.

Sorry to disagree,

Neil.