https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58770
Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Last reconfirmed| |2014-06-27 CC| |manu at gcc dot gnu.org Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #2 from Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> --- The GCC preprocessor is very optimized for include guards. Perhaps the same optimizations are not applied for "#pragma once". Someone will need to investigate where the two code paths differ and what could be the reason for the slow-down. Unfortunately, there are very few developers working on the preprocessor and very few users of "#pragma once", so this will likely have very low priority unless one of those users takes the lead to fix it.