Richard Earnshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The GCC build times are not unreasonable compared to other, >> commercial compilers with similar functionality. And the GCC >> developers >> ave plans to address inefficiencies -- GCC 4.0 often is faster than >> GCC >> 3.4. > > If you are going to make sweeping statements like this you need to > back them up with hard data.
It is surely faster for C++ code thanks to the work done by Codesourcery on the lexing upfront and the name lookup. "Faster" here means 20-30% faster, so it's not 1% or something like that. There are many posts on gcc@ that show this, I can dig them up in the archive for you if you want, but I'm sure you can use google as well as I do. Two of them are very recente (see Karel Gardas' post on this thread, and the recent benchmark posted by Rene Rebe). Giovanni Bajo
