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Re: Of Bounties and Mercenaries
Tom Lord wrote:
Instead of bounties and mercenaries, a model which has occaisional
success but a long track record of that success being very limited and
narrowly focused, may I suggest instead the OSDL model?
The OSDL is an excellent model -- but it does beg one question. Mr.
Torvalds is now in their employ, and the Linux folk have long been
grumpy about GCC compile times. I wonder is OSDL has or will fund
efforts toward improveing compiler speed?
GCC may be too small a scope to make real progress on your general
idea and may already be situated in the commercial world in too
complex a way.
My fear (and that of others) is that GCC has become so commercialized
that it fails to address the needs of the community at large. I'm not
anti-commercial -- I'm just looking for some model that meets the needs
of certain forgotten and ignored constituencies.
Ultimately: I gather you want to pool funds from people interested in
issues they can't afford to individually address. I think that's a
true and good niche to fill. But two suggestions: First: Don't nickle
and dime people --- asking them to earmark every penny rather than
just giving hints about their interests makes it too hard to send a
few bucks.
Precisely. I should have been more clear, perhaps.
Second: if pooling _isn't_ your goal then you should bag
all this bounty stuff and just be a sole proprietor GCC consultant
(which, for all I know, you already are).
As a matter of disclaimer, I have never been paid anything to work on
GCC. I *have* been paid to work on commecial C++ compilers (not INtel,
for those who wonder).
That *could* change, as I have some customers who very much want OpenMP.
And others are looking into funding as well.
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Scott Robert Ladd
Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com)
Software Invention for High-Performance Computing