On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:13:33PM +0100, fab wrote:
> 
> I've seen some kind of benchmark that show C++ is faster with 4.0, maybe
> this is why people think 4.0 is faster.

The biggest advantage for C++ is the symbol visibility support. This can
dramatically reduce the number of relocations in shared libraries and
thereby speed up dynamic loading.

Joerg