Re: Compiling 2.2.19 with -O3 flag

From: Marcus Meissner (mm@ns.caldera.de)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 11:45:37 EST


In article <1022253543.962.236.camel@sinai> you wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 07:42, Alan Cox wrote:

>> Bench it and see. From my own experience -O3 made the kernel a lot larger
>> and reduced overall performance - in part because the kernel already
>> explicitly figures out what it wants inlined.
>>
>> Interestingly enough -Os outperformed -O2

> Heh, now that is interesting.

Not really, -Os implies -O2, cf gcc/toplev.c:

          if ((p[0] == 's') && (p[1] == 0))
            {
              optimize_size = 1;

              /* Optimizing for size forces optimize to be 2. */
              optimize = 2;
            }

CIao, Marcus
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