On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 14:05, Stroller wrote:
On Oct 22, 2003, at 5:43 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > At 1w1:59 AM 10/22/2003, you wrote: >> Arg! I'm in the middle of recompiling my WHOLE kdelibs using -Os at >> the advice of another poster here. >> I really would like a definitive answer here, and don't have the time >> for multiple recompilations myself. > > When you do figure out which is the "best" flag to use, let us know if > your system is truly noticeably faster. My money says you won't notice > the difference. The compiled files will be bigger, but probably not > faster (to a human). It was the previous posters' contention that -O2 would not be noticeably faster than -Os, but would produce larger binaries & take far longer to compile. It was Mr Kenworthy's emphasis in the statement "-Os was by *FAR* the slowest" that suggested the difference might be noticeable. As I posted within the last week, the laptop with which I am concerned is a PII 400 with only 64meg of RAM. More RAM for this proprietary form-factor sub-notebook might be argued to be prohibitively expensive, at $160 or so for 64meg. I think I'll probably have to bite the bullet, but I think that on this machine performance may be more noticeable than on most. Unfortunately compilations take far longer also. At present I am more interested in getting compilation to support prelinking, which I'm finding quite a confusing process, but since I have made several big recompiles in the last few days it would be nice to know that I'm using the optimal flags. Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
