Comments on: GCC Rant + Progress http://blog.mozilla.org/tglek/2009/04/30/gcc-rant-progress/ Taras' blog on Snappy, Startup, Telemetry and other Firefox peroformance matters Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:50:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Zack http://blog.mozilla.org/tglek/2009/04/30/gcc-rant-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-22357 Zack Fri, 01 May 2009 07:26:11 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.org/tglek/?p=127#comment-22357 As an ex-GCC dev, the kernel people’s attitude really bugs me too (especially the “90% of programs are not helped by the optimization work in 4.x” bullshit, which is, well, bullshit). When they have actually bothered to communicate their requirements, GCC has done something about it (attribute always_inline, for instance).

That said, there’s this general problem where people don’t bother to report bugs or request features in open source projects because they expect to be blown off. We ourselves have a bad track record there – pick any low-number bug that’s still open and read the comments. Fixing this is going to be hard, because it’s a cultural change, not a technical one: we need to seek out the assistance of people with good communications skills, and we need to stomp hard on people who are assholes to the users *even if* their technical contributions are valuable.

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