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Re: gcc-3.0 release. Compilation time


On Jul 29, 2001, Laurent Michel <ldm@mediaone.net> wrote:

> 3 minutes 47 seconds:

> With gcc 3.0 however:
> More than 10 minutes!

> #include <iostream>
> #include <fstream>

Bear in mind that these header files are now full of templates, as
mandated by the C++ Standard, which explains in part why it takes so
long for GCC 3.0 to compile them.  People are working on improve the
compile times, but it will take a while for it to get as fast as GCC
2.95, if it ever does.

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