Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?

[Richard Guenther]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Richard Kenner
<kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> wrote:
>> Fundamentally, our philosophy has been to catch errors *before* they get
>> into the repository.  Sure one day of breaking the trunk isn't so bad, but
>> when it breaks it affects hundreds of developers and it adds up.  Everyone
>> separately either stops and waits, or tracks down which patch it was and
>> reverts it so they can continue working.
>
> An interesting question that I see as relevant here and for which I have no
> data is: what percentage of the time does a patch cause an error *only*
> in libjava?   I think you have to weigh the cost of the build of that
> library against the number of bugs that it finds.

Happened to me multiple times.

The thing to tackle is to make libjava build more parallel.

Richard.