On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 12:01:36PM +0200, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> I would also agree if it were not for the fact that IRA is already a
> scalability bottle-neck and that has been known for a long time, too.
> I have no confidence at all that if LRA goes in now, these scalability
> problems will be solved in stage3 or at any next release cycle. It's
> always the same thing with GCC: Once a patch is in, everyone moves on
> to the next fancy new thing dropping the not-quite-broken but also
> not-quite-working things on the floor.
If we open a P1 bug for it for 4.8, then it will need to be resolved some
way before branching. I think Vlad is committed to bugfixing LRA, after
all the intent is for 4.9 to enable it on more (all?) targets, and all the
bugfixing and scalability work on LRA is needed for that anyway.
Jakub
