Quality of GCC 3.1

[Andrew Haley]

Jan Hubicka writes:
 > > a)	What is the reason of such big decrease in performance especially if
 > > 	exceptions and/or streams are used?
 > 
 > The exceptions got slower, because the tables are more compact. Is
 > exception delivery performance really problem for C++ programs?

If exceptions are very much slower it's bad news for Java.  On the
other hand, our binaries are a good deal bigger than we'd like them to
be...

Andrew.