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Not sure about this last part. It is really going to
require work by us to rewrite things. :-) In the mean
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<div>FWIW: My problem is, when put in this framework, we
will repeatedly make this same decision, this same way,
again and again, and never actually get even started on
fixing it :)</div>
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<div>IE "it's just another small patch!"</div>
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You're correct. However, as I'm sure you're aware, developer time is
not directly transferable in a way that makes any other decision
optimal. It's not like blocking all improvements to InstCombine will
cause a movement to appear to rewrite InstCombine.</div></blockquote><div>Of course not, but this sets it up as an all or nothing thing, and it's not.</div><div>Though you probably will need a stop loss point in the future.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">It will only
cause a shrink in the pool of developers with recent experience
working on InstCombine (and a lot of out-of-tree patches). </div></blockquote><div>This is not the only effect it will have, and i don't believe you think that either (since this argument is globally applicable to the degree that it would mean we should just accept *every patch* rather than push people to better design stuff). </div><div>It would also, for example, push people towards putting transformations elsewhere.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Frankly,
we don't even have a concrete plan for how we'd do this, or even a
target design, and that's the first item on the critical path to a
rewrite.</div></blockquote><div> Sure, and frankly, you will never get one until either someone decides to be super-altruistic, or you start pushing on people a little more than "not at all".<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> We should start an RFC and iterate on this until we have a
concrete plan and migration plan.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't believe that will actually achieve anything at this point (really, no offense meant)</div><div>So I'm just going to leave this stuff alone since it's pretty clear people just view me as being either obstructionist or unrealistic.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't see anything happening until we are willing to push more, and i don't see that happening until instcombine is even worse than it is now.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>