http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55309
--- Comment #9 from Kostya Serebryany <kcc at gcc dot gnu.org> 2013-02-05 10:30:16 UTC --- > And, for compile time, you want to be testing with --enable-checking=release Thanks! With --enable-checking=release gcc's compile time drops to 374 seconds. That's much better, but still 50% slower than clang (built with asserts)