[CLN-list] Overriding read_number_bad_syntax on OS X

[Bruno Haible]

Richard B. Kreckel wrote:
> AMD Opteron 870 2GHz, x86_64 Linux, GCC 4.1 (intDsize=64):
>              size  100*exam  100k*tb2b  pi 1M
> static,     4.1M    21.81s     47.52s  9.68s
> static, *)  3.6M    19.87s     46.84s  9.68s
> shared,     1.7M    21.86s     47.76s  9.68s
> shared, *)  1.5M    21.91s     47.66s  9.69s
> 
> AMD Athon 64, 1.8GHz, i386 Linux, GCC 4.1 (intDsize=32):
>              size  100*exam  100k*tb2b  pi 1M
> static,     3.1M    31.24s     81.15s  9.25s
> static, *)  2.6M    31.01s     81.21s  9.18s
> shared,     1.6M    39.79s     91.44s  9.29s
> shared, *)  1.3M    37.64s     87.79s  9.28s

Thanks for these timings. I'm now convinced that it's worth throwing
exceptions and dropping support for -fno-exceptions. These worst-case 10% are
acceptable.

Bruno