Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal

[Dale Johannesen <dalej at apple dot com>]

On Jan 18, 2004, at 5:44 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> espie@quatramaran.ens.fr (Marc Espie) writes:
>
> | I do see the benefits, sure (I love the new preprocessor, except for 
> the
> | -traditional bug, and I really need a standard C++ compiler), but 
> updating
> | from 2.8.1 to 2.95 slowed our compiles by ~30%, and the on-going 
> 2.95 to
> | 3.3.2 update is slowing them by 30% more.    Heck, we do have
> | architectures that are NOT going to switch because the compile are
> | really too slow now.   There's even some chance only sparc64 will 
> switch
> | because 2.95 was completely crap on sparc64 (understandably so).
>
> We should probably require developers to use slow machines with small
> rams.  Semi ;-)

I know of 3 companies that tried this strategy at some point, on the 
theory that
turnaround time on minimal machines was important.
All 3 of them relented when they saw how unproductive their developers 
were.