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caf on March 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: GCC and C vs C++ Speed, Measured

We don't know, because GCC does not execute as a Python program.

This wasn't testing the speed of compiling a program as C++ versus compiling it as C; it was testing the speed of compiling the Linux kernel using GCC-compiled-as-C++ as the compiler versus using GCC-compiled-as-C as the compiler.

(And it concluded that the difference was insignificant anyway!)

tlarkworthy on March 21, 2013 [–]

Yeah my bad I thought we were measuring the speed of compilation in C Vs. C++. (looks like it wasn't just me)

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