Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters

[Robert Dewar]

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

> I suspect the real question is which kind of codes and how they are
> representative. 

Absolutely, and my general rule is that optimizations are disappointing,
which has a corrolary that removing an optimization is not necessarily
disappointing in terms of performance :-) And we really don't have good
data on this issue.