Re: Quality of GCC 3.1

[Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>]

Andrew Haley wrote:

> 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...
For most Java applications, I don't think it matters a great deal about 
the speed of throwing/delivering exceptions. Its generally regarded as 
bad practice to rely on throws as part of the normal execution of a 
program, so given the choice between slower exception delivery and 
significantly smaller binaries, I'd go for the small binaries.

regards

Bryce.