http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53525
Bug #: 53525 Summary: Performance regression due to enabling track-macro-expansion Classification: Unclassified Product: gcc Version: 4.8.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: preprocessor AssignedTo: unassig...@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: ji...@gmx.net About 3% regression on cc1 -O0 compilation time has been noticed between gcc-4.8-20120429 and gcc-4.8-20120513. The culprit seems to be enabling by default -ftrack-macro-expansion (TME). Example time, instruction count and memory usage for compiling reload.c follow. time M Instr KB RAM noTME 0.744s 2081 28608 TME 0.785s 2201 31672