dias:
> >How's your defence preparation going?
> 
> The defense is finished and went well. I expect to wrap up my revisions 
> next week.
> 
> >What's the flag to switch on the new path?
> 
> For reasons that are no long obvious to me, there used to be two flags, 
> but after I submit my next patch (after validating), -fnew-codegen should 
> work.
> 
> >I'll look forward to the day when you say "it can be on by default", so 
> we can delete all the old code!  Worth doing some simple compile-time 
> tests (use nofib) to see if compile times increase when using the new path.
> 
> Agreed. I compared the new codegen with the old codegen (on nofib) before 
> I left Microsoft, and I recall a minor uptick in compile times. I haven't 
> looked into the causes yet.
> 

Are we expecting a /decrease/ in runtime now though? :-)

-- Don

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