"Daniel Berlin" <address@hidden> writes:
| On 29 Dec 2006 19:33:29 +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis
| <address@hidden> wrote:
| > "Daniel Berlin" <address@hidden> writes:
| >
| > [...]
| >
| > | In fact, what they told me was that since they made their change in
| > | 1991, they have had *1* person who reported a program that didn't
| > | work.
| >
| > And GCC made the change recently and got yy reports. That might say
| > something about both compilers user base. Or not.
| >
| Right, because the way we should figure out what the majority our
| users want is to listen to 3 people on a developer list instead of
| looking through the means we give users to give feedback, which is
| through bug reports.
And surely, this specific issue did not come from users through a bug
report.
| We've gotten a total of about 10 reports at last count, in the many
| years we've been optimizing this.
|
| > Please, feel free to ignore those that don't find the transformations
| > appropriate, they are just free software written by vocal minority.
|
| Wow Gaby, this sure is useful evidence, thanks for providing it.
|
| I'm sure no matter what argument i come up with, you'll just explain it away.
Not really. I've come to *agree with you* that we should just ignore
those that don't find the transformation useful for real code: they
are vocal minority.