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[Bill Baxter]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 2:52 PM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> Bill Baxter:
>
>> Holy smokes!  You actually file bugs in the LLVM database?!
>
> Don't ask me why. Eleven so far, you can't find five of them because in the beginning another person has filed them for me in a strange way. LLVM devs have asked me so many times, on IRC.

Folks have asked you many times here to submit bugs against dmd and/or
phobos too.  That's why I was surprised.  I thought it was some
religious thing, this non-filing of bugs.  :-)

> One of those performance bugs has already being half-fixed, with nice results:
> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=5501

Nice.  Still hoping for the day when LLVM can do exceptions on Windows...

> I feel dumb, I understand nearly nothing of what they do and how they do it, it's another (higher) level... I may be fit as their jester.

Yeh, that kind of low level compiler tweaking is pretty much a mystery
to me too.

--bb