Re: gcc compile-time performance

[Robert Dewar]

<<GNAT's real advantage, in fact, is not so much in good error RECOVERY,
as in good error DIAGNOSIS: its messages are MUCH better than the
usual GCC standard.  Panic-mode error recovery is never going to give
you that.
>>

Of course the two go hand in hand if you want to give more than *one*
"much better" error message, and a lot of effort also goes into ereror
recovery in GNAT.