GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

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On 30 Apr 2005, Giovanni Bajo uttered the following:
> There is no outcome, because it is just the Nth legend. Like people say "I
> believe GCC is slow because of pointer indirection" or stuff like that.

Don't we have actual *evidence* that it's slow because of cache
thrashing?

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 like resistors in an electrical circuit.' - Kaz Kylheku in c.o.l.d.s