Dan Pasanen wrote:
> Ok, im not too sure about this, but i was wondering, i have dual core
> turion64's should that affect if im running -O2 or -O3? currently im
> running -O2. and if i did change it to -O3, what, if anything should
> i recompile?
>From gcc man page:
-O3 Optimize yet more. -O3 turns on all optimizations specified by -O2
and also turns on the -finline-functions, -funswitch-loops and
-fgcse-after-reload options.
So "-O3" is adding 3 more optimization flags to the bunch of flags "-O2"
brings. I thing it is reasonable to doubt that a program compiled with
"-O3" would greatly outperform the same program compiled with "-O2". The
same logic is applicable about stability. I have to admit that my logic
here is a plain arithmetic of type: "1 lemon - 10 cents, 10 lemons - 100
cents". There are programmers here who's opinion should be respected if
it differs from this logic.
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Best regards,
Daniel
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