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a bit of time has passed and there to my knowledge still no strong arguments against removing it.</div>
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is everyone OK to proceed with the removal ?</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Chris Lattner <clattner@nondot.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 4, 2020 7:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Johannes Doerfert <johannesdoerfert@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Ehud Katz <ehudkatz@gmail.com>; llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org <llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org>; Tyker1@outlook.com <Tyker1@outlook.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [llvm-dev] [RFC] Removing Waymarking from Use.</font>
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<div class="">On Apr 3, 2020, at 11:06 AM, Johannes Doerfert <<a href="mailto:johannesdoerfert@gmail.com" class="">johannesdoerfert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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Is it worth it? I think it is. But I am not sure I see the whole picture -
are there low-memory systems that need to run LLVM on?
I am not sure what needs to be done to approve such a fundamental change;
especially when we can't prove the Waymarking was needed at all.</pre>
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I guess if no-one brings forth arguments (= results) for keeping it and</p>
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people continue to support replacing it, we will replace it. There should</p>
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be a grace period in which people have the chance to do their benchmarking</p>
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(basically what is happening), but I don't recall a problem being reported yet.</p>
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I agree. I’m not hearing strong arguments to retain it, so let's remove it. Worst case, we can always reinstate it if there is a good reason discovered down the line. Thank you!</div>
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