[Nottingham] Compiler optimisation flags (gcc, g++)

[Simon Huggins]

Hi NLUG,

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:12:55PM +0000, Martin wrote:
> Any pitfalls with using the following compiler optimisations for an 
> Athlon Palomino cpu system?

The usual pitfalls with optimisation I guess.  Measure it carefully
before and after to see if you're actually gaining anything.

It's interesting to note that -O3 can do damage to some code as Debian
Weekly News highlighted:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/50924
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/50953
and
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/50973


Simon.

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