On 06/05/2010 21:25, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Richard Guenther <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> This is a proposal to introduce an optimization level -Ofast
>> that can collect (target specific) optimization flags that
>> can affect runtime behavior such as -funsafe-math-optimizations
>> or -mrecip.
>
> Sounds like a good idea to me. I don't like the name -Ofast, which is
> ambiguous, but I see that there is precedent in the PathScale and PGI
> compilers. I don't think a potentially confusing name is enough of a
> reason to buck the trend.
Maybe then we should also add -Osmall and -Of, just to be thoroughly
symmetric and orthogonal :)
cheers,
DaveK
