GCC still getting a lot slower

[Paolo Carlini]

Neil Booth wrote:

>>Wild guess
>>
>>   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-cvs/2002-12/msg00481.html
>>
>>???
>>    
>>
>If so, ugh.  Fat chance of finding out exactly what it was.
>
Yes :-(
And unfortuntely the culprit is exactly the merge itself. See:

    http://www.suse.de/~aj/SPEC/CINT/sandbox-bib/Bootstrap-time_big.png

Paolo.