David Edelsohn wrote:
Kaveh R GHAZI writes:
Kaveh> I tried many years ago and Mark objected:
Kaveh> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-10/msg00756.html
Kaveh> Perhaps we could take a second look at this decision? The average system
Kaveh> has increased in speed many times since then. (Although sometimes I feel
Kaveh> like bootstrapping time has increased at an even greater pace than chip
Kaveh> improvements over the years. :-)
I object.
Me too.
I'm a big proponent of testing, but I do think there should be some
bang/buck tradeoff. (For example, we have tests in the GCC testsuite
that take several minutes to run -- but never fail. I doubt these tests
are actually buying us a factor of several hundred more quality quanta
over the average test.) Machine time is cheap, but human time is not,
and I know that for me the testsuite-latency time is a factor in how
many patches I can write, because I'm not great at keeping track of
multiple patches at once.
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Mark Mitchell
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