[PR 18143] thunk range

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:

| On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 10:14:45AM +0000, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
| > PR 18143 is about a problem with the newly restricted thunk range.
| > 
| > Option 1 is to revert the restriction.
| > Option 2 is to add a sorry.
| > 
| > Option 1 is unarguably to be preferred, if it has no down sides.
| > Unfortunately it does.  Reverting the patch makes lang_decl bigger, and
| > that impacts compile time -- by a surprising amount.  I built
| > --disable-checking compilers on both powerpc-apple-darwin and
| > i686-pc-linux-gnu and then measured the -O0 compile time for QT.  There
| > was a 1% slowdown on both platforms.  This is bad.
| 
| Speed is important, but not as important that we should add impose artificial
| limits on the users IMHO.
| So I'm for Option 1.

Strongly agree here. INSHMO.  

-- Gaby