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Re: "Experimental" features in releases

From: Perry Smith <pedz at easesoftware dot com>
To: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
Cc: Kai Henningsen <kaih at khms dot westfalen dot de>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:58:54 -0500
Subject: Re: "Experimental" features in releases
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On Apr 19, 2006, at 9:00 AM, Neil Booth wrote:

So is this an object lesson for why optimizing for benchmarks is a bad idea?

We use to call this "benchmarketing"

I don't see why GNU would want to do that for anything.

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