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Re: V3 PATCH: Disable wide-character tests where necessary
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 08:13:23AM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> >>>>> "Zack" == Zack Weinberg <zackw@Stanford.EDU> writes:
>
> Zack> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 11:59:18PM -0800, Mark Mitchell
> Zack> wrote:
> >> I don't, however, want us making any major changes to the
> >> front-ends at this point. Or to anything else. :-)
> >>
> >> I'd really like to see everyone focus on 3.0.
>
> Zack> What's your position on the GC work I've been doing? It is
> Zack> arguably fixing performance regressions, but it tends to
> Zack> involve major, potentially destabilizing global changes.
>
> I think that some level of compile-time performance improvement is
> essential before 3.0, so I think that as long as we can keep it mildly
> sane, that makes sense. We're not presently in a stable state;
> there's going to be a lot of bug-fixing on the branch.
Okay. Do you have an opinion on the revised string-pool patch I sent?
There are a bunch of things I can do for performance once that goes
in. I won't have time till next week, though, so no hurry.
zw