Re: [fpc-devel] I'll be straight

2019-02-10 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 09.02.19 um 00:41 schrieb J. Gareth Moreton: I'll be straight here.  Exactly what should I even be looking at and working on?  Being self-guided is evidently not cutting it because recently, everything I see and think has potential or could use improvement has been rejected or dismissed out

Re: [fpc-devel] I'll be straight

2019-02-09 Thread Bart
On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 6:33 PM Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > This is not intentional. It can happen we don't see bugs. Of course this can happen, it happens on the lazarus side as well. > And I recall distinctly saying several times that you can mail directly if > you see no-one is reacting. Yo

Re: [fpc-devel] I'll be straight

2019-02-09 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 9 Feb 2019, Bart wrote: On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 9:35 AM J. Gareth Moreton wrote: I guess I can get a bit impatient, Reaction time on ptaches in the fpc part of the bugtracker is rather long (especially when compared to the lazarus part of the bugtracker), I find that discouraging a

Re: [fpc-devel] I'll be straight

2019-02-09 Thread Bart
On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 9:35 AM J. Gareth Moreton wrote: > I guess I can get a bit impatient, Reaction time on ptaches in the fpc part of the bugtracker is rather long (especially when compared to the lazarus part of the bugtracker), I find that discouraging as well. I have had patches (simple on

Re: [fpc-devel] I'll be straight

2019-02-09 Thread Marģers . via fpc-devel
will also slow down compilation time. Not sure fpc core team will accept that kind improvement. Optimized code for speed most likely became less readable and less maintainable. It's misfortune of optimization. - Reply to message - Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] I'll be straight Date: 20

Re: [fpc-devel] I'll be straight

2019-02-09 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
Well, at least we're having a good civil conversation about it!  As long as we can talk and discuss things, then there's no harm, and hopefully someone like me who is over-enthusiastic at times can still be useful! I suppose loc[low(loc)] isn't necessarily bad and is guaranteed to be correct - j

Re: [fpc-devel] I'll be straight

2019-02-09 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 09/02/19 08:33, J. Gareth Moreton wrote: In the last patch that Jonas almost immediately closed, the speed savings were inconclusive because the number of cycles saved is probably only a few dozen, but I would argue it makes the code a bit more reasonable too because it replaces things like

Re: [fpc-devel] I'll be straight

2019-02-09 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
Thanks Michael, In the last patch that Jonas almost immediately closed, the speed savings were inconclusive because the number of cycles saved is probably only a few dozen, but I would argue it makes the code a bit more reasonable too because it replaces things like loc[low(loc)] with loc[0] and

Re: [fpc-devel] I'll be straight

2019-02-08 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 8 Feb 2019, J. Gareth Moreton wrote: I'll be straight here.  Exactly what should I even be looking at and working on?  Being self-guided is evidently not cutting it because recently, everything I see and think has potential or could use improvement has been rejected or dismissed out of

[fpc-devel] I'll be straight

2019-02-08 Thread J. Gareth Moreton
I'll be straight here.  Exactly what should I even be looking at and working on?  Being self-guided is evidently not cutting it because recently, everything I see and think has potential or could use improvement has been rejected or dismissed out of hand because it damages maintainability, is deem