Re: Save 320K on production machines?

[Paulo Marques]

Linda Walsh wrote:
> [...]
> The current makefile turns on the optimization only on gcc4 or higher,
> but my results were with gcc3.5.5.  Maybe defaults for 386 should
> enabler the optimization for some versions of gcc 3 as well?  -l

AFAICR, the problem with gcc3 and unit-at-a-time was stack usage with 
local variables on automatically inlined functions.

For instance, if function A called B and after B returned called C, both 
local variables of B and C would be given a reserved space on the stack 
during the execution of A if both functions were automatically inlined. 
So the space needed now was A+B+C whereas before was Max(A+B, A+C).

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