Lars G formulated the question :
27 total votes for 7 reports, that are
over 3 years old. That's an average of
just over 1 vote per issue per year.
Why should CG bother.
Backing up a bit, there was some discussion
about adding optimizations to the compiler.
I think that is a great idea.
Some thought that was too hard and would be
too much work, too time consuming when there
were other things that needed to be done.
From my perspective, I completely trust the
FastCode guys to vote on and suggest the "low
hanging fruit" ideas that would make the most
difference and be the easiest to implement.
After those are done, then we can start
working on some harder issues. There
are some optimizations that can't be done
in a FastCode routine. They really need
to be done by the compiler. Stack frames
comes to mind. Loop unrolling.
But if the issues posted so far get hardly any
votes, I don't think that we can complain
about CG not putting enough time into such
an "important" issue. And I don't blame Dennis
or other FastCoders for not entering any
more reports as long as these easy ones are
lingering.
Excuse me, I have some voting to do.
Brad.