Re: Is it possible and not unadvisable to make /src with the -O3 option?...

2016-06-16 Thread STeve Andre'
Go for it. The beauty of open source is that you are free to try things. I would submit your first step of learning is how to figure out where all the -O2's are. You will learn a lot about things if you really dig into the weird problems you will hit. Probably you won't get much help here,

Re: Is it possible and not unadvisable to make /src with the -O3 option?...

2016-06-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2016-06-16, Luke Small wrote: > Eh, I run it on a VM. I could copy one and somehow locate all the -O2's and > replace them with -O3's in the files. I'd probably have to write a program > to do it, unless there are easy to find, centrally located ones? > > On Thu, Jun 16,

Re: Is it possible and not unadvisable to make /src with the -O3 option?...

2016-06-16 Thread Ted Unangst
Luke Small wrote: > Would it make it slower, more buggy or make the kernel not fit in the root > partition? Yes.

Re: Is it possible and not unadvisable to make /src with the -O3 option?...

2016-06-16 Thread Luke Small
Would it make it slower, more buggy or make the kernel not fit in the root partition? On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 9:07 AM Mike Burns wrote: > On 2016-06-16 13.42.44 +, Luke Small wrote: > > Is it possible and not unadvisable to make /src with the -O3 > > option?...

Re: Is it possible and not unadvisable to make /src with the -O3 option?...

2016-06-16 Thread Luke Small
Eh, I run it on a VM. I could copy one and somehow locate all the -O2's and replace them with -O3's in the files. I'd probably have to write a program to do it, unless there are easy to find, centrally located ones? On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 9:54 AM Janne Johansson wrote: >

Re: Is it possible and not unadvisable to make /src with the -O3 option?...

2016-06-16 Thread Janne Johansson
Do you have the skills to detect and handle if gcc miscompiles something at -O3? If not, then don't. Noone else will help you getting a zomg-fast -O3 system working after a slight miscompile gets a few bad instructions stuffed into some lib somewhere, so if you break your system, you get to keep

Re: Is it possible and not unadvisable to make /src with the -O3 option?...

2016-06-16 Thread Mike Burns
On 2016-06-16 13.42.44 +, Luke Small wrote: > Is it possible and not unadvisable to make /src with the -O3 > option?... It is inadvisable to deviate from the documentation here: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html

Is it possible and not unadvisable to make /src with the -O3 option?...

2016-06-16 Thread Luke Small