On Thursday, 26 June 2014 at 21:20:04 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Thursday, 26 June 2014 at 17:52:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On 6/26/2014 7:02 AM, Shammah Chancellor wrote:
I've increased the bounty on this bug. Fast CTFE is very
important.
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1325927-ctfe-copy-on-write-is-slow-and-causes-huge-memory-usage
This is great news, and I'm sure very much appreciated by all.
I can't help being a little concerned over issue ownership,
though. My understanding is that Don's already done a large
amount of work towards this issue. I wonder if that could
actually be holding people back from contributing to the
issue, for fear of taking whole pot unfairly (ie, swooping in
and just doing the last little bit, or being perceived as
attempting that), or fear of stirring up disagreement over
money?
Don's a senior developer at a company that just got bought for
$200 million. I doubt he's stressing over a $400 bounty, ;)
especially if it takes some work off his plate.
Yes, of course I'm not interested in bounties. But note that that
issue is not really a "bug", it's a project.
I put hundreds of hours of work into this, to get to the point
where we are now - fixing the compiler structure to the point
where a JIT is possible. That work was funded by an insolvency
payout :). Daniel Murphy has done some work on it, as well.
I doubt bounties are effective as a motivation for this kind of
thing.
