Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS "...-O3 -pipe" vs "...O2 "

2007-04-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Andrey Gerasimenko, > Ideally you should measure compile times for large projects like Open > Office and find out what works best on your system. I would start with > 1 thread -O2 and -pipe. That would be an incredible waste of time because the OOo build replaces any -O? CFLAG with -O2. I

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS "...-O3 -pipe" vs "...O2 "

2007-04-08 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:48:07 +0400, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi group, I note two schools of thought on the best CFLAGS for the Pentium III processor. One suggests using -O3 -pipe, the other, -O2 without the pipe. How much difference does this make? Is the extra level of opti

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS "...-O3 -pipe" vs "...O2 "

2007-04-08 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
> One suggests using -O3 -pipe, the other, -O2 without > the pipe. > > How much difference does this make? Is the extra level > of optimization with pipe the equivalent of the lower > level without? From the gcc manpage: -pipe Use pipes rather than temporary files for communication between the var

[gentoo-user] CFLAGS "...-O3 -pipe" vs "...O2 "

2007-04-08 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I note two schools of thought on the best CFLAGS for the Pentium III processor. One suggests using -O3 -pipe, the other, -O2 without the pipe. How much difference does this make? Is the extra level of optimization with pipe the equivalent of the lower level without? -mw __