On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Eric Botcazou <ebotca...@adacore.com> wrote: >> I have measured it at some point and IIRC it was about 10% slower >> (comparing C bootstrap with C++ in stag1 languages with C++ bootstrap, >> not sure if that included bootstrapping libstdc++ for the former). > > IMO acceptable now that the build time of libjava has been halved.
Actually the penalty for using C++ was only 1.5%, that of bootstrapping C++ and libstdc++ was 15%. For reference: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-06/msg00100.html Richard.