Why Phobos is cool

[rikki cattermole]

On 18/07/2020 2:14 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> Apart from std.math, there are no differences between upstream and downstream copies anyway (and I could always upstream version(GNU) asm implementations for x86, RISC-V, ...).
> 
> It would certainly make my life easier, would speed up both time to build compiler and run the testsuite, and no more worrying about getting the mathlib working on PPC64, or PA-RISC, or M68K, or VAX.  That's now someone else's problem, and I can think of better things I could be doing with my time anyway.
> 
> Would people be happy if I did this?  I doubt it.

How often does compiling Phobos as part of the testsuite catch bugs in gdc?

If the answer is never, then maybe some deferring could be possible.