Don Clugston wrote:
This shows a significant misunderstanding of where the time goes. There are three things that take a lot of time: (1) understanding the bug, and how the patch is trying to fix it; (2) running the test suite (takes about half an hour); (3) adding the bug to the test suite. Making the changes to the existing code is usually (though not always) pretty trivial and quick. The majority of the patches which I have made are just one-line or two-line changes. You've also missed the steps of reproducing the existing bug, and checking that the bug now passes. This always involves copying code from bugzilla into a text editor. It should be pretty clear from this that (2) and (3) have some major opportunities for efficiency improvement. Far more significant IMHO than any changes to the compiler version control system.
A couple more things need to happen: 4. have to fold it into D1, or if it's a D1 patch, fold it into D2 5. update change logs, bugzilla resolution messages _______________________________________________ dmd-internals mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals
