"Experimental" features in releases

[Neil Booth]

Kai Henningsen wrote:-

> dberlin@dberlin.org (Daniel Berlin)  wrote on 18.04.06 in <1145340618.28433.36.camel@dberlin.org>:
> 
> > This is in fact, not terribly surprising, since the algorithm used was the
> > result of Sebastian and I sitting at my whiteboard for 30 minutes trying to
> > figure out what we'd need to do to make swim happy :).
> 
> > This would leave -ftree-loop-linear in 4.2, but make it not useful for
> > increasing SPEC scores.
> 
> So is this an object lesson for why optimizing for benchmarks is a bad  
> idea?

It certainly seems that way to me.

Neil.