more on the C++ abstraction penalty

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 20001107192204F.mitchell@codesourcery.com >you write:
  > 
  > Joe --
  > 
  >   It's good that you point out this optimization -- but I wish you
  > wouldn't just now. :-)
  > 
  >   The reason is that we don't need this functionality for GCC 3.0; all
  > we need is what we had in GCC 2.95.  I would prefer that we not
  > encourage people to go trying to implement this now; I really want to
  > batten down the hatches on new features.  It would be better to have
  > people focused on getting out the bugs in GCC 3.0.
I agree with Mark.  We really need to be concentrating on the stuff that
is absolutely necessary for GCC 3.0.

jeff