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Re: PATCH: speed up ar(1)
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:53:14AM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Steven,
>
> >>Approved for the mainline, but not the 2.16 branch.
>
> >Ouch, that's a shame.
>
> You can try to persuade Daniel that including it in the branch would be
> a good idea, but I doubt if he would agree. The problem is that the
> patch is too new and has the potential to introduce sublte new bugs
> which are not immediealtey obvious from reviewing the code. I would
> rather that the 2.16 branch produce a working-but-slow ar than a
> fast-but-broken one.
I am currently inclined to migrate it to 2.16 if no one has reported
problems with it in another week or two. A lot of GCC developers use
binutils HEAD; I expect any problems in this area will turn up.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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