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Re: -fexceptions and C: Performance penalties?
- To: george at moberg dot com
- Subject: Re: -fexceptions and C: Performance penalties?
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at upchuck dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 16:42:21 -0600
- cc: egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <XFMail.990513180221.george@moberg.com>you write:
> Are there any performance penalties for compiling C code with the
> -fexceptions flag?
Yes. It will tend to inhibit global optimizations because of the
additional edges in the flow graph.
It will also increase the footprint of the program because of the EH tables.
jeff