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From: darrylo@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Darryl Okahata)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Possible HP-UX compiler optimizer bug (found while making Perl)
Message-ID: <430014@hpnmdla.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Nov 89 06:43:44 GMT
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In comp.sys.hp, mjs@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella) writes:

> >Anyway, can you say 'beta test' ?
> 
> We can, and we do.  Our beta sites uncovered several problems which we
> diligently fixed.  We spend a lot of time per release in QA (this is
> one thing that differentiates HP from many of our competitors).  Our
> biggest problem (as a company) may be the long delay between a bug
> report and a fix reaching the customer; this is in part due to our
> long release cycle - often code is frozen months before a release.

     I would also like to say that forthcoming compilers are being
beta-tested by a number of HP divisions, across North America and, quite
possibly, the world (I imagine that HP divisions in Australia, Japan,
England (& Scotland), and Germany are taking part in the test, but I
have no proof of this -- it's just that it is so easy to get a beta copy
of a compiler in minutes via HP's internal internet network, that I
have trouble imagining that no one at one of these divisions has grabbed
a copy).

     -- Darryl Okahata
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