On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:03 PM Jeff Gilbert wrote:
> I get that, but it reminds me of the reasons people give for "our
> website works best in $browser".
>
I was concerned by this too but found myself swayed by the arguments in
https://blog.mozilla.org/nfroyd/2018/05/29/when-implementation-mon
I get that, but it reminds me of the reasons people give for "our
website works best in $browser".
There are also other less-obvious benefits where having multiple
backends can illuminate bugs and deviations from standards, as well as
having another set of warnings and static analysis passes. Once
On Wednesday, 30 May 2018 08:48:12 UTC+12, Jeff Gilbert wrote:
> It would be sad to see us standardize on a clang monoculture.
It pays not to be sentimental about tools. We get better practicality and
productivity by focusing on clang. Using the same compiler across all platforms
means that we
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 09:19:29AM +1000, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 7:58 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote:
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> >
> > MSVC is a separate beast. It is a great compiler.
> >
>
> FWIW: numerous times I have been stymied by MSVC's bugs or lack of
> features. Bug 1449787 is a recent
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 7:58 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote:
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> MSVC is a separate beast. It is a great compiler.
>
FWIW: numerous times I have been stymied by MSVC's bugs or lack of
features. Bug 1449787 is a recent example.
Nick
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On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 1:48 PM, Jeff Gilbert wrote:
> It would be sad to see us standardize on a clang monoculture.
>
I am sympathetic to that concern. (I have similar monoculture fears that
the open source world is over-pivoting towards non-OSS platforms like
GitHub and Slack as well.)
We wil
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 8:48 PM, Jeff Gilbert wrote:
> It would be sad to see us standardize on a clang monoculture.
I wouldn't want us to abandon msvc and gcc as well-supported
compilers; but from just one perspective (security) it would be very
advantageous to have a single open source toolchai
It would be sad to see us standardize on a clang monoculture.
On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 7:56 PM, Anthony Jones wrote:
> You may already know that the Low-Level Tools team support important tools
> and code infrastructure. Lately we’ve also been improving our rustc/clang
> (LLVM) story and I’d like b
The process has begun. We'll send out another announcement when it is done (or
if there are issues).
> On May 28, 2018, at 23:57, Erin Lancaster wrote:
>
> Of course, happy to get us back to a good place and very sorry for all of the
> inconvenience. We haven't had any further requests for e
On Monday 2018-05-28 15:52 -0400, Chris AtLee wrote:
> Here's a bit of a strawman proposal...What if we keep the
> {mozilla-central,mozilla-inbound,autoland}-{linux,linux64,macosx64,win32,win64}{,-pgo}/
> directories in tinderbox-builds for now, and delete all the others. Does
> that cover the majo
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