On 19 Mar 2007 19:12:35 -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@cs.tamu.edu> wrote:
> similar justifications for yet another small% of slowdown have been
> given routinely for over 5 years now. small% build up; and when they
> build up, they don't not to be convincing ;-)
But what is the solution? We can complain about performance all we
want (and we all love to do this), but without a plan to fix it we're
just wasting effort. Shall we reject every patch that causes a slow
down? Hold up releases if they are slower than their predecessors?
Stop work on extensions, optimizations, and bug fixes until we get our
compile-time performance back to some predetermined level?