We're out of tree codes; now what?

[Phil Edwards]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:51:06AM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> But seriously, I think we need to press autoconf into generating 100x  
> faster code 90% of the time.  Maybe prebundling answers for the  
> common targets...

Eeeeek, imake!  :-)
 
Every time I've played with precomputing cache answers, I almost immediately
run into problems where the answers need to be customized or recalculated,
even for situations which I would have labelled as "common".  Even preloading
the cache only saves a little bit of time compared to the time for all
the zillions of tiny files bring created, compiled, deleted.


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<Patrician|Away> what does your robot do, sam?
<bovril> it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards
    it and drives into walls