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Re: Potentially merging the transactional-memory branch into mainline.
- From: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- To: Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:23:15 -0600
- Subject: Re: Potentially merging the transactional-memory branch into mainline.
- References: <4EAF2238.2090509@redhat.com> <CAFiYyc36P9zgqNGVbNJPp=O4fZgzAHOcmZHavJrWEJsttVdibg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/01/11 03:49, Richard Guenther wrote:
>
> Given that you only recently merged with trunk again are you
> really sure this is a great idea at this point in time? Does the
> GCC 4.7 user community benefit from this in any way (or rather how
> much percentage of it)?
>
> Thus, please consider merging early during GCC 4.8 stage1 instead.
This stuff is fairly isolated in terms of what it touches and I'm sure
if anything goes wrong, Aldy, Richard & Torvald will be available to
fix it.
The request to merge came in before the end of stage1, I don't see a
reason to delay things another 6-9 months. This isn't like asking to
pull in a whole new register allocator at the end of stage1 :-)
Additionally, I believe we have a small window where we can position
GCC to be the compiler of choice for those working with TM; waiting
6-9 months for GCC 4.8 will miss that window.
Jeff
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