Re: It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM)

On Sun, 8 Sep 2024, at 14:02, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> Beware of selection bias.
>
> "Somebody who compiles from src" is almost the > > literal definition of 
> "committer".

I build from src all the time and have never committed.

> In terms of all the FreeBSD running hardware out  
> there, not even
> one percent of one percent of the machines 
> compile from src.

How have you measured this? I've never been asked.
Surely I'm not alone.

From this and other threads there seems to be a lot of "stands to reason" sentiment without any actual data...

Wouldn't it be better to make decisions based on data?

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