Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:29:06 -0400, Walter Bright
<[email protected]> wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
You mean like asking someone who reported low performance of your
program on the newsgroup to do it for you? :)
1. He had the test case, I didn't.
He == me :)
The test case was available as a tarball download at
www.dsource.org/projects/dcollections.
Not that I mind doing the dirty work, if it gets results, but asking
someone to compile your product in a different way and then asking them
to try and analyze the output of *your* program isn't the best way to
get results. If I told Microsoft that Word was crashing on a document
it made, and they responded by sending me the source code for Word and
said "You have the test case, so you figure it out" I don't think people
would like them very much. I have had this problem for months, and
haven't really pushed it except for snide remarks until recently, when I
figured if I didn't do it, nobody would.
I understand the lack of time, and that was why I did the work, but I
didn't really expect to get results.
I hope that you enjoyed doing this, and I hope to make building the compiler an
easy thing for users to do, if they are so inclined. I also wanted to push the
issue of using a profiler <g>.
2. People have repeatedly suggested I delegate some of the compiler
work. Why not?
What I've done hardly qualifies as doing compiler work. I just helped
identify the problem :) I hope you plan on fixing it, I can't.
Yes, I'll fix it.
