------- Additional Comments From Thomas dot Koenig at online dot de 2004-12-13 08:57 ------- It's not exponential, the exponent is somewhere between 2.2 and 2.3.
Here's a number of test cases on an Itanium 2 with 1.3 GHz: $last time(s) 10000 476.4 7000 212.8 5000 101.2 3000 29.8 -- What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|exponential (?) compile-time|more than quadratic compile- |behavior with many |time behavior with many |arithmetic if statements |arithmetic if statements http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18943