http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54393
--- Comment #6 from Paolo Carlini <paolo.carlini at oracle dot com> 2012-08-29 13:53:23 UTC --- No, I'm sorry, we are not going to do that for vstring. Remember that vstring is just a preview of the new std::string implementation for when we break the ABI. We are not going to add symbols and make things more complex for it. The core issue is trivial, of course, when vstring will be "promoted" to main string implementation will get the optimizations and everything else.