what do these configure options mean?

[Kurt Wall]

An unnamed Administration source, James McDonald, wrote:
% Umm I was reading the mozilla from source faq and I don't understand 
% what these options do?
% 
% Ultimately I would like to know if they make mozilla quicker or slower 
% if used?
% 
%    * |--enable-cpp-rtti \|

Enables C++ run-time type information - slow

%    * |--enable-cpp-exceptions \|

Enables C++ exception handling - slow


Kurt
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