On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:57:06 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:

> I haven't measured it for IA32, but for a couple other 
> architectures I have, and -Os generated consistently larger
> code than -O2.  Using -O3 ballooned up to be quite a bit larger
> than both -Os and -O2, but if you're worried about size, -O2
> usually seems to be the best choice.

I've just tried it on a few PPC packages and, on balance, there was a
small space saving, although it was hardly enough to get excited about.


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Neil Bothwick

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