From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23480 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 2004 23:42:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 23472 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2004 23:42:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.knology.net) (24.214.63.101) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 25 Oct 2004 23:42:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 31851 invoked by uid 0); 25 Oct 2004 23:42:43 -0000 Received: from user-24-96-113-172.knology.net (HELO ?192.168.0.8?) (24.96.113.172) by smtp8.knology.net with SMTP; 25 Oct 2004 23:42:43 -0000 Message-ID: <417D8F67.5070105@coyotegulch.com> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:53:00 -0000 From: Scott Robert Ladd User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040919) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ziemowit Laski CC: "Joseph S. Myers" , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: New C parser [patch] References: <42A6DEB0-26D4-11D9-9558-000D9330C50E@apple.com> <8354E669-26DE-11D9-B761-000D9330C50E@apple.com> In-Reply-To: <8354E669-26DE-11D9-B761-000D9330C50E@apple.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg02131.txt.bz2 Ziemowit Laski wrote: > While I don't buy these time estimates (not both simultaneously, > anyway), I do > agree that you would take a performance hit, at least in the short-term, > especially for plain C code. I don't think this is a hit GCC's users can afford at this point. Another compile time regression may bring the hordes with pitchforks and torches... ;) Also, C and C++ are heading down different and incompatible paths. It will be increasingly difficult to manage the subtle-but-important differences in a single front end if the two languages continue to diverge. -- Scott Robert Ladd site: http://www.coyotegulch.com blog: http://chaoticcoyote.blogspot.com