Greenwashing

[Arun Chandrasekaran]

On Friday, 29 May 2020 at 12:52:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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.

Where I work we typically use decision matrix. In it's current 
state, DIP process would benefit if a decision matrix can be 
introduced for controversial proposals. It will help to summarize 
the options and counter options proposed and the weightage for 
each option (based on sound reasoning).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_matrix