[Wolves] Gentoo

Ron Wellsted ron at wellsted.org.uk
Wed Mar 23 20:23:34 GMT 2005


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David Goodwin wrote:
|
|> To get the best possible performance, make sure you get your CFLAGS
|> right.  On my athlon-xp I use CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" (the
|> -mcpu flag will not give the best possible optimisation for your system).
|
|
| Have you experienced any instability from using e.g. -O3 compiler flags?
| I was under the impression that as you make the compiler more agressive
| in optimisation it may result in instability (e.g. the compiler removes
| code which is actually needed thinking it's excessive)
|
| I may of course be wrong.

I have not seen any problems yet with -O3, but that is about the limit I
am prepared to go to.

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Ron Wellsted
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