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Re: GCC version bikeshedding
- From: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>
- To: Alec Teal <a dot teal at warwick dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>, Paulo Matos <paulo at matos-sorge dot com>, gcc <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:39:04 -0400
- Subject: Re: GCC version bikeshedding
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On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Alec Teal <a.teal@warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
> Agreed (no experience, but I wouldn't want to live in a world where what
> Andi
> describes is the case!)
We already live in that world. This would not change that. I quite
like the proposal.
> What is "Bikeshedding"? I've not heard this term before and a quick search
> showed
> some weird things, and this very thread!
Derived from Parkinson's Law of Triviality
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law_of_triviality). Boils
down to giving more weight to trivial aspects of a discussion.
Diego.