GCC 3.3 compile speed regression - AN ANSWER

[Joe Buck]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:55:33AM -0000, Rob Taylor wrote:
> g++ is so incredibly slow - observe:
> 
> hellow.cpp:
> #include <iostream>
> 
> int main()
> {
>     std::cout << "Hello, world!\n";
> }
> 
> robt@hal:~$ time g++-3.1 hellow.cpp
> 
> real    0m1.815s
> user    0m1.620s
> sys     0m0.090s

Congrats, you just timed the compiler, the assembler, and the linker,
not just the compiler.  The compiler is too slow, but if you want to time
just the compiler you need to write

time g++-3.1 -S hellow.cpp