precompiled probing scenarios

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Thu Oct 26 01:07:00 GMT 2006


"Stone, Joshua I" <joshua.i.stone@intel.com> writes:

> [...]
> That's partly my point.  Those pairings are functionally equivalent,
> right?  So why should the code we generate show any differences?
> [...]
> My hope is that someday the translator will also treat less obvious
> cases like these as identical: [...]

While none of these is a bad idea, I see little practical necessity
for normalization.  How many nearly-identical scripts do we ship?  How
many normalizably-identical scripts do people actually use?  If the
answer is "not many" or even "none", I wouldn't worry about it.

- FChE



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