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Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal



On 19/01/2004, at 6:43 PM, Alexandre Oliva wrote:


On Jan 19, 2004, Geoff Keating <geoffk@apple.com> wrote:

On Jan 19, 2004, at 2:04 PM, Eric Botcazou wrote:
I would look at it this way: Why should a professional developer based
in the US try to make GCC work on anything less than this machine?
It's clearly not cost-effective to spend any significant time doing
so.

My point of view is exactly reverse :-) Why should a developer not keep GCC working on such a machine?

Because it's a waste of the developer's time?

Err... And under what kind of logic is getting the compiler slower not a waste of time for every GCC developer (that has to bootstrap and test the whole thing for every patch) and user (that runs GCC to build their own applications).

I didn't say the developer should make GCC slower. I said the developer should not worry about performance on *old* machines. Performance on *new* machines is still a concern. They are often not the same thing.



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