Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 16:36:19 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: Program fast w/BC++, slow w/DJGPP
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>A heretic thought started crawling into my mind: can it be that GCC
>indeed *does* produce slow code for C++ programs?  I don't really
>work in C++, so all my experience about GCC code efficiency comes
>from C programs.  What about those constructors/destructors behind
>the scenes: could it be they are much slower in G++ than they are
>in BC++?  Opinions, anyone?  Maybe I will re-write the program in
>pure C one of these days...

I'm not sure about speed, but I do know they're a LOT larger.  Even
after strip, an iostreams "Hello, world!" program comes out much
larger than the corresponding TC++ version--so perhaps slower as well.

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