Yeah, people seem confused by this. You can build the last release of gcc either with a C++ compiler or with a C compiler. I did both, and benchmarked the results.
Sorry, I missed the sentence: "With this in mind, and Ian Taylor’s bold assertion that "The C subset of C++ is as efficient as C", I wanted to test what had changed with some actual measurements."
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Yeah, people seem confused by this. You can build the last release of gcc either with a C++ compiler or with a C compiler. I did both, and benchmarked the results.
Hope that helps! Rusty.
Sorry, I missed the sentence: "With this in mind, and Ian Taylor’s bold assertion that "The C subset of C++ is as efficient as C", I wanted to test what had changed with some actual measurements."