Gregory Stark wrote:
The problem I ran into was that by the time I had them all wrapped up major new commits to the CVS tree made it uninteresting to benchmark the snapshot I had.
That's going to be a problem with any snapshot approach. For the most part, interesting patches are going to hit a number of common hotspots ISTM.
I'm fairly resistant to putting less-than-ready code in the tree, I must say.
+1 to the idea of patches in smaller pieces that has been mentioned upthread. I tried to do that in one or two places recently, but it could go much further.
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