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Date:      Wed, 30 May 2012 10:00:02 +0100
From:      David Chisnall <theraven@theravensnest.org>
To:        Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r236137 - head/contrib/gcc/config/i386
Message-ID:  <15CED26F-127B-4736-9E96-6315D6303B31@theravensnest.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120530080151.GX90133@alchemy.franken.de>
References:  <201205270527.q4R5Rm44028055@svn.freebsd.org> <20120528190355.GA42283@alchemy.franken.de> <20120528204728.GD2358@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20120529224833.GW90133@alchemy.franken.de> <20120530034747.GJ2358@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20120530080151.GX90133@alchemy.franken.de>

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On 30 May 2012, at 09:01, Marius Strobl wrote:

> Ehm, yes, but given that this wouldn't be the first such flag we have
> is avoiding it really worth the link time and run time overheads in
> the long term?=20

Given the small overhead of the extra hashes, yes.  At some point in the =
future, we can turn off the older ones and get a tiny reduction in =
overhead, but doing it now would cause much more pain for users in not =
being able to copy binaries from slightly newer to slightly older =
machines than we'd save from a tiny increase in binary size.

This is the archetypal change for incremental deployment, let's not make =
our users' lives difficult just because we can.

David
Who doesn't want to be woken up by mobs of users with flaming torches =
and pitchforks.=



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