http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59305
--- Comment #14 from Iain Sandoe <iains at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de from comment #13) > > --- Comment #12 from Iain Sandoe <iains at gcc dot gnu.org> --- > [...] > > Do you repeat the findings we see on Darwin, where a heavily loaded system > > does > > not exhibit the slow-down? > > no, I see it both on unloaded and heavily loaded systems. Even on an > idle system, the runtime varies by a magnitude or more. so the open question is whether there's a fault in the fall-back solution - or whether it's fundamentally incapable of delivering reasonable performance (at least on some non-linux platforms).