proposed Opengroup action for c99 command (XCU ERN 76)

[Joe Buck]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 08:58:12PM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM> writes:
> 
> | To me, even a 1% performance hit to fix this would be excessive.
> 
> My opinion is that is an excessive statement.

Really, Gaby?  Consider that there are hundreds of other open bugs.
Would you accept a 1% hit to fix each?  GCC is slower than it used
to be because of dozens and dozens of 1-2% performance regressions.

Why is this problem so important that a 1% speed regression for *all*
programs would be acceptable?