div0: > No they aren't. > command line options apply to the entire module(s) not to specific > invocations of a function.
In both GNU C and CLisp you can add annotations to change the optimization level on a function by function basis: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html#index-g_t_0040code_007boptimize_007d-function-attribute-2419 Bye, bearophile