------- Additional Comments From giovannibajo at libero dot it 2005-01-02 22:14 ------- (In reply to comment #6)
> But users will definitely notice slower bootstraps, thus further > contributing to the perceived feeling that GCC is forever getting > slower. This is an urban legend. Please do timings and come back with numbers. 4.0 is 30-40% faster than 3.4 for C++ code on average at -O0, for instance. And still much faster at -O2, and it's got something like 50 new optimizer passes. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19223