On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 01:19:37PM +0000, Paul Millar wrote: > > (e.g. use your brain to optimise code, not > the -O2 switch in gcc).
Bah. The -O2 switch in GCC will do a lot better than most people trying to hand optimise code. The important thing to do is write the code in the first place. Once that's done, you can use a profiler to determine which areas it's actually worth spending time on optimising. I worked with somebody who preferred to 'optimise' his own code. He produced unreadable piles of crap and spent ages 'optimising' code that was never in the critical path. I seriously doubt what he was producing was any faster than a decent compiler would anyway... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wossname.org.uk/~mathie/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
