On Jul 20, 2009, at 3:45 AM, H. Gluender wrote: > > Now, as far as I remember, with compilers there is a performance > tradeoff concerning speed and tightness of the resulting code. How > does GCC and Clang compare with this respect? Yes, I'm also interested to see more details with respect to optimization and dead code removal. > Could you please tell me what "pch time" means? pch = pre-compiled headers. Brian S