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Re: Of Bounties and Mercenaries
Stelios Xanthakis wrote:
Compiler speed *should not* be an issue. If gcc 3.5 is ten times
slower compiling programs at -O2, that's a good thing: it means
that it does more to procude better code. A program is compiled
once but executed 100000 times. So compile-time is *not* an issue
and it would be wrong if gcc developers dropped features because
they slow compile speed.
You must be awefully good if you only compile your programs once! I'm
just a poor sot who has to compile over and over again as I add new
features and test and debug... ;)
Seriously, compile speed is a very serious problem for people working on
large applications; it gets rather onerous when every cycle takes twn
minutes to compile, ten seconds to test, and a minute to debug; I'm much
more productive with a fast compiler.
gcc developers *should* completely ignore comments about the speed
of gcc. Do you get paid to improve the speed? No. Application
programmers should write good code. If a big corp has incompetent
people and expects from gcc to get faster at -O2, they can hire
a filthy bounty hunter ;)
A rather arogant attitude, if I do say so myself. I guess we're not all
as good as you are.
I might also add that I was not advocating the position of Linux
developers, merely stating a well-known example of people who want
something and who might be willing to pay for it.
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Scott Robert Ladd
Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com)
Software Invention for High-Performance Computing