egcs 1.1.1 extremely slow

[Mike Stump]

> From: us@ooc.de (Uwe Seimet)
> To: egcs-bugs@cygnus.com
> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 16:24:16 -0100

> this is not a bug report but more a question: I found that egcs
> 1.1.1 is extremely slow in compiling C++ code compared with egcs
> 1.0.3 or gcc 2.8.1.  Isn't there anything that can be done about it?

If you haven't turned off optimization, you might try that, at least
for developement.  For production, hopefully you should find the code
generation worth the time spent.

If you don't have optimization on, I am curious, is your code template
heavy?