Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?

[Richard Kenner]

    I think it's best to describe my objection as an assessment of the
    tree-ssa project.  Unlike (it seems) an awful lot of people, I just
    don't think it's going to be that disruptive.  It's replacing
    optimizers with better ones; 

We don't yet know that it will be *replacing* anything.  For the moment,
it'll be adding a new class of optimizations.  Historically, that will
cause yet more programs that don't quite meet the standard to malfunction
(just like -fstrict-aliasing).  I think it's unrealistic that this large
a change won't have user-visible effect.