Re: Looking into LLVM

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer gmail com>]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 08:21:09PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>On 10/26/2009 08:21 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
>
>> 
>> Which affects who?  koji certainly seems to be keeping up with the load.
>> 
>> What I'm trying to pry out of you is what you'd be hoping to accomplish
>> by using it.  The answer so far seems to be "I'd spend less time
>> building things, at the cost of some unknown amount of time invested in
>> fixing everything to build again".  That doesn't sound like progress.
>
>Certainly status quo is easier.  Less time building things is a obvious
>benefit. We don't know the cost unless we try. Doing a scratch build
>similar to the FTFBS rebuilds is definitely worth trying IMO. Arguing
>that we should never try at all doesn't seem appealing to me.

Sounds like something you should start trying then.

josh