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