[llvm-dev] Clang is a resource hog, the installers for Windows miss quite some files, and are defect!

[Philip Reames via llvm-dev]

Stefan,

I can't tell if you're intentionally trolling, or are simply oblivious, 
but to this observer you have clearly crossed well over the line of 
acceptable behavior.  Please take a step back, walk away from a couple 
of days, and if you want to reengage with a calmer perspective at that 
time, then do so.

Philip

On 8/21/20 10:41 AM, Stefan Kanthak via llvm-dev wrote:
> "David Greene" <dag at hpe.com> wrote:
>
>> Stefan Kanthak via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> writes:
>>
>>> "Michael Kruse" <llvmdev at meinersbur.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think David is not referring to the capitalization of file names, but to
>>>> "DUPLICATE", "WASTING", "NOT AMUSED", "BOGUS" etc.
>>> I EMPHASIZE in the only way possible with plain text.
>> There are *many* ways to _emphasize_ text without shouting.
>>                                           ~~~~~~~
> How ugly; I prefer UPPER CASE!
>
>>>> It should be possible to report problems in a professional manner.
>>> It should also be possible to handle problem reports in a professional
>>> manner!
>>  From everything I have read, both Michael and David were very
>> professional in their responses.
> Both had nothing better to do than to mock about my way of emphasizing!
> That's childish and completely unprofessional.
>
> [...]
>
>>> I don't use LLVM, so don't expect me to jump throught loops to report
>>> obvious bugs.
>> I guess I don't understand your concern then.  If you don't use LLVM,
>> why are you installing it and why do you care about its size?
> Who said I installed it?
> Some poor soul installed it because he got the advice to use LLVM/clang
> because "it is better than MinGW or MSVC/Visual Studio".
> After that he wondered why he can compile for i386, but can't link the
> compiled objects ... so he asked me.
> I VOLUNTARILY took my time to see what was installed, and how it was
> installed: I noticed the wasted 0.5GB and the missing clang-rt.*-i386.lib
> He was DEFINITELY not amused, and called the $*%@ who built this crap
> names.
>
> I but dared to copy clang-rt.builtins-{i386,x86-64}.lib and verified the
> still POOR performance, especially for 64-bit division on i386 and 128-bit
> division on AMD64.
>
> JFTR: __udivmoddi4 and __udivmodti4 are even slower than in LLVM 7.0.0!
>
> [...]
>
>>>> There are multiple potential equivalents to symlinks on Windows systems,
>>>> the one matching UNIX systems the closest is relatively new and requires
>>>> either Administrator rights or developer mode turned on.
>>> Hardlinks don't. And they are available on both systems.
>> They aren't available on FAT32 filesystems though.
> The DEFAULT installation directory is on NTFS.
>
> JFTR: since Windows Vista, introduced 14 years ago, the boot partition
>        must be NTFS.
>
> Stefan
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