On 11/24/2013 11:43 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
My biggest problem with stuff like this (see link in original post) is that after so much combined effort getting things working across multiple architectures - just take a look at any pull for version MIPS, PPC, PPC64, SPARC, ARM, etc... or my pull for implementing std.math for almost all (double-double reals the main one missing), IEEE real types - someone goes ahead and breaks support for all these targets and no one thinks or lifts an eyebrow over it.
My experience with porting code across architectures is that if one personally has not done it before, one always gets it wrong, despite the best intentions.
There's no substitute for a review of such pull requests by someone who has been there done that before. Saying people should be better educated about this simply will not work.
