Ok already, we hear you. No need to post the same message 5 times. And BTW, it is a "feature" of GMail that you don't see your own posts.
Cheers, -Richard Ryan Lynch wrote: >Optimization level 9 (-O9)? Thats a laugh. Read the GCC man page, the >optimization levels are just groupings of other optimization flags (-O1, -O2, >-O3, -O0, -Os), with optimization level 3 (-O3) containing the most >optimization flags. The numbers don't correlate to any kind of optimization >level (i.e. -O99 wouldn't be "99%" optimized or some equivilent malarky). The >numbers might as well be letters like A, B, C.... In fact, if you know >anything about programming, most of the -O3 flags and beyond become very code >specific, and sometimes only work with programs written a certain way or run >on certain processors. This just goes towards my general opinion that >Gentoo users in general see gcc cflags as some kind of magic incantation and >no little about their purpose, potential, or meaning. -funroll-loops anyone? > >-Ryan Lynch > >On Monday 23 May 2005 05:09 pm, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>On Monday 23 May 2005 05:09 pm, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> -O3: The highest performance optimization level before code starts to >>>break. It goes up to -O9 if you're daring. (Use -Os to compile for >>>size.) Implies a lot of stuff. >>> >>> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
