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Cc: Scott Robert Ladd <coyote@coyotegulch.com>, Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com>,
        gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Nick Burrett <nick@dsvr.net>,
        Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr>,
        Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>,
        Marc Espie <espie@quatramaran.ens.fr>
From: Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@apple.com>
Subject: Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:52:00 -0000
To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg01536.txt.bz2


On 19/01/2004, at 6:43 PM, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Jan 19, 2004, Geoff Keating <geoffk@apple.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 19, 2004, at 2:04 PM, Eric Botcazou wrote:
>>>> I would look at it this way: Why should a professional developer 
>>>> based
>>>> in the US try to make GCC work on anything less than this machine?
>>>> It's clearly not cost-effective to spend any significant time doing
>>>> so.
>>>
>>> My point of view is exactly reverse :-)  Why should a developer not
>>> keep GCC
>>> working on such a machine?
>
>> Because it's a waste of the developer's time?
>
> Err...  And under what kind of logic is getting the compiler slower
> not a waste of time for every GCC developer (that has to bootstrap and
> test the whole thing for every patch) and user (that runs GCC to build
> their own applications).

I didn't say the developer should make GCC slower.  I said the 
developer should not worry about performance on *old* machines.  
Performance on *new* machines is still a concern.  They are often not 
the same thing.