Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?

[kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)]

    >>> We don't yet know that it will be *replacing* anything.  For the
    >>> moment, it'll be adding a new class of optimizations.

    can be read as saying the same thing as "the jury is still out as to
    what extent that will be possible" -- but that is not the natural
    reading.  The natural reading is that you don't believe replacing
    low-level optimizations is the intended goal.  

I'm sorry that you read it that way, but my purpose was indeed to talk
about what is likely to *happen*, not what the intent might currently be.

    As you yourself say the jury is still out, which means predicting
    failure of this effort is just as premature and inappropriate as
    predicting its success.

Most certainly.  Especially when "failure" and "success" aren't well-defined
statuses. 

    And expressions of disbelief that other people's stated goals are
    actually their intended goals, in the absence of any evidence either
    way, have no place in a cooperative environment.

I don't believe I ever said or implied that and indeed I certainly
don't believe that statement.