http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49829
--- Comment #26 from Vladimir Yakovlev <vbyakovl23 at gmail dot com> 2012-02-13 09:59:31 UTC --- We have performance degradation of 447.dealII benchspec 2006.It was happened because there are no inlining a library routine '_Rb_tree_node_base' from libstdc++-v3/src/tree.cc const _Rb_tree_node_base* _Rb_tree_increment(const _Rb_tree_node_base* __x) throw () { return Rb_tree_increment(const_cast<_Rb_tree_node_base*>(_x)); } I found out that the degradation is caused by absence of -fPIC flag in compilation command line. If I add the flag to command line the inlining is happened.