On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:29:06 -0400, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
You mean like asking someone who reported low performance of your program on the newsgroup to do it for you? :)

1. He had the test case, I didn't.

He == me :)

The test case was available as a tarball download at www.dsource.org/projects/dcollections.

Not that I mind doing the dirty work, if it gets results, but asking someone to compile your product in a different way and then asking them to try and analyze the output of *your* program isn't the best way to get results. If I told Microsoft that Word was crashing on a document it made, and they responded by sending me the source code for Word and said "You have the test case, so you figure it out" I don't think people would like them very much. I have had this problem for months, and haven't really pushed it except for snide remarks until recently, when I figured if I didn't do it, nobody would.

I understand the lack of time, and that was why I did the work, but I didn't really expect to get results.

2. People have repeatedly suggested I delegate some of the compiler work. Why not?

What I've done hardly qualifies as doing compiler work. I just helped identify the problem :) I hope you plan on fixing it, I can't.

-Steve

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