> For critical things I did just what -frtl-abstract-sequences did (along > with some hand optimizing) and I've seen performance improvements of 50% > and more just by getting my working set of code to fit into the cache-size. > > Once the feature is removed: Will there ever be any chance that the feature > will be re-implemented?
OK course, it's always possible to implement something (even from scratch) at any point. If there's enough interest in this feature, then someone will implement it "right" at some point, and keeping a broken version around won't really help. Arno