"Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, I measured the performance differences for the things I care > about (compression, media encoding, and dm-crypt encryption), and > ended up choosing -Os for my Core Duo system. As James says, some > things run faster, other things run slower. And it isn't across the > board...bzip2 -1 can give completely different results than bzip2 -9. > The differences generally are within +/- 10% of the -O2 performance. > > The major advantage to -Os (aside from smaller executables), is > compile time. Especially C++ programs take noticably less time to > compile with -Os than with -O2 or -O3.
This alone would seem to make it worth while. Thanks for the detailed input ... all posters -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
