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Date:      Mon, 09 Sep 2024 20:49:12 +0100
From:      void <void@f-m.fm>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM)
Message-ID:  <94809bad-8c45-4520-a24a-fd6afa5b2c85@app.fastmail.com>
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On Sun, 8 Sep 2024, at 14:02, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> Beware of selection bias.
>
> "Somebody who compiles from src" is almost the > > literal definition of 
> "committer".

I build from src all the time and have never committed.

> In terms of all the FreeBSD running hardware out  
> there, not even
> one percent of one percent of the machines 
> compile from src.

How have you measured this? I've never been asked.
Surely I'm not alone.

>From this and other threads there seems to be a lot of "stands to reason" sentiment without any actual data...

Wouldn't it be better to make decisions based on data?

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