Greenwashing

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/28/20 7:35 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 May 2020 at 22:56:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Large projects separate compilation inter-procedural analysis does not 
>> scale yadda yadda yadda.
> 
> We need to stop making assertions without measurements. This may be 
> true, but it needs to be based on empirical fact - the one thing we 
> should notice is compile speed is sensitive to surprising things and not 
> to other surprising things....

Needs to be based in sound analysis, not measurements, as a quadratic is 
not scalable regardless of the constant. When I was in the field there 
was no escaping this fact, and all interprocedural analyses that did 
anything interesting were limited to programs a few KB in size.

Perhaps things have improved since, and it would be great if they did. 
Timon should know about this.