aaron.ballman added a comment.

In D131942#3729379 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D131942#3729379>, @tbaeder wrote:

> In D131942#3729057 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D131942#3729057>, @aaron.ballman 
> wrote:
>
>> In D131942#3728994 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D131942#3728994>, @erichkeane 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> In D131942#3728974 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D131942#3728974>, 
>>> @aaron.ballman wrote:
>>>
>>>> LGTM as well; should we add a release note for this? I suspect not because 
>>>> it's improving an experimental feature that's not really ready for prime 
>>>> time yet, but I don't know how others feel.
>>>
>>> That was my thought on it, though thinking further, I wonder if there is 
>>> value to it to show 'signs of life' in the release notes?
>>
>> @tbaeder -- do you have plans to continue to add support to the experimental 
>> constant expression evaluator?
>>
>> If this is code that we have people actively working on with plans to bring 
>> it to completion, then I think showing signs of life in the release notes is 
>> a good idea. If we don't have anyone who is planning to bring this through 
>> to completion, I think we should seriously considering pulling it out of the 
>> tree rather than trying to maintain parallel constant expression evaluators. 
>> (We wouldn't be pulling it out of the tree because we don't like the design, 
>> so if someone wanted to resurrect it in the future because they planned to 
>> complete it, we'd gladly welcome it.)
>
> I certainly plan to keep working on it. I have a few more such patches 
> locally that you'll have pleasure reviewing I'm sure :). It think adding a 
> small changelog note is fine of course.

Fantastic! As long as it's heading in the right direction rather than getting 
more and more stale, I'm happy to keep it in-tree. I'm fine either way on the 
release note.


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