On 25 January 2017 at 01:45, Oleg Smolsky wrote: > I've just noticed that gcc5.4 is 3x faster on large/complex files when it is > built with --enable-bootstrap (as opposed to --disable-bootstrap). I thought > that the stage2 compiler is already built with itself and so there should be > no difference between stage2 and stage3 compilers... (the host's compiler is > gcc 4.8) > > Do you know what's going on? Are you sure --enable-bootstrap is the only difference, and one isn't build with --enable-checking? Are both built from the exact 5.4.0 release, not a snapshot?