On 31 January 2005 18:12, Sven Panne wrote:
> Simon Marlow wrote:
>> On 31 January 2005 16:57, Wolfgang Thaller wrote: [...]
>>> 2) Make -O no longer imply -fvia-C. [...]
>> Unless anyone else objects, I'm happy for you to go ahead.
>
> Hmmm, what will be the default when only -O is given? NCG? C? IMHO -O
> has the meaning "make the execution later as fast as possible" and no
> -O means "I don't care about execution speed". If we deviate from
> this, I guess we will have to explain GHC's behaviour 1000 times
> later... The current behaviour makes perfect sense IMHO.
Arguably -O2 should imply -fvia-C, not -O, on the grounds that it
doubles compilation time for <5% performance increase.
Cheers,
Simon
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