Re: Fwd: [Bug c++/14563] octave built under Cygwin very slow]

[Paul Thomas]

Andy,

>  - Has anyone tried to compile octave with a gcc version compiled
>    with --disable-sjlj-exceptions?
>
>  

Yes, with gcc-3.4.  Not very hard, though.  Something was a rather 
broken (readline?) and large quantities of symbols were  emitted to the 
console at start-up.  Once it settled down, though, it ran as quickly as 
with the samizdat gcc-3.2.

Paul T