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Re: more on the C++ abstraction penalty
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: more on the C++ abstraction penalty
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 09:40:58 -0700
- cc: jbuck at racerx dot synopsys dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at redhat dot com
In message <20001107192204F.mitchell@codesourcery.com>you write:
>
> Joe --
>
> It's good that you point out this optimization -- but I wish you
> wouldn't just now. :-)
>
> The reason is that we don't need this functionality for GCC 3.0; all
> we need is what we had in GCC 2.95. I would prefer that we not
> encourage people to go trying to implement this now; I really want to
> batten down the hatches on new features. It would be better to have
> people focused on getting out the bugs in GCC 3.0.
I agree with Mark. We really need to be concentrating on the stuff that
is absolutely necessary for GCC 3.0.
jeff