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Re: Quality of GCC 3.1
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- To: gcc at gnu dot org
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:20:59 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: Quality of GCC 3.1
- References: <20020617210500.GA28032@localhost.tpnet.pl><20020618145503.GL19604@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Jan Hubicka writes:
> > a) What is the reason of such big decrease in performance especially if
> > exceptions and/or streams are used?
>
> The exceptions got slower, because the tables are more compact. Is
> exception delivery performance really problem for C++ programs?
If exceptions are very much slower it's bad news for Java. On the
other hand, our binaries are a good deal bigger than we'd like them to
be...
Andrew.