Re: bootstrap on powerpc fails

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

David Edelsohn wrote:
> > > > > > Kaveh R GHAZI writes:
>
> Kaveh> I tried many years ago and Mark objected:
> Kaveh> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-10/msg00756.html
>
> Kaveh> Perhaps we could take a second look at this decision?  The average system
> Kaveh> has increased in speed many times since then.  (Although sometimes I feel
> Kaveh> like bootstrapping time has increased at an even greater pace than chip
> Kaveh> improvements over the years. :-)
>
> 	I object.

Me too.

I'm a big proponent of testing, but I do think there should be some 
bang/buck tradeoff.  (For example, we have tests in the GCC testsuite 
that take several minutes to run -- but never fail.  I doubt these tests 
are actually buying us a factor of several hundred more quality quanta 
over the average test.)  Machine time is cheap, but human time is not, 
and I know that for me the testsuite-latency time is a factor in how 
many patches I can write, because I'm not great at keeping track of 
multiple patches at once.

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