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Date:      Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:38:49 -0500
From:      Dan Mack <mack@macktronics.com>
To:        Jakub Lach <jakub_lach@mailplus.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: my build time impact of clang 5.0
Message-ID:  <m2mv58qm0m.fsf@macktronics.com>
In-Reply-To: <1507039968621-0.post@n6.nabble.com> (Jakub Lach's message of "Tue, 3 Oct 2017 07:12:48 -0700 (MST)")
References:  <m2lgktv1pg.fsf@macktronics.com> <1507039968621-0.post@n6.nabble.com>

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Jakub Lach <jakub_lach@mailplus.pl> writes:

> On the other hand, I'm having tremendous increases in Unixbench scores
> comparing to 
> 11-STABLE in the April (same machine, clang 4 then, clang 5 now) (about
> 40%).
>
> I have never seen something like that, and I'm running Unixbench on -STABLE
> since
> 2008.

Agree; clang/llvm and friends have added a lot of value.  It's worth it
I think.

It is however getting harder to continue with a source based update
model, which I prefer even though most people just use package managers
today.

I still like to read the commits and understand what's changing, why,
and select the version I am comfortable with given the nuances of my
configuration(s).  I think that's why 'knock-on-wood' I've been able to
track mostly CURRENT and/or STABLE without any outages since about 1998
on production systems :-)




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