https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86907
--- Comment #4 from janus at gcc dot gnu.org ---
(In reply to Jürgen Reuter from comment #3)
> Janus, this is actually incredibly valuable information. Yes, I was always
> since ages building gcc/gfortran/g++ from the svn, and at some point
> compilation became significantly ("macroscopically") slower, probably from
> version 7.0.0 on. Could this be when enable-checking was introduced.
I'm pretty sure --enable-checking exists much longer than that, but maybe the
default has changed at some point?
> Can I just compile the svn version with --enable-checking=release?
Sure!
