On Thursday 19 of July 2012, Michael Meeks wrote: > Having said that, I totally agree, our problems are 95% algorithmic, > and fiddling with compiler optimiser settings is the last refuge of the > desperate man ;-) > > The thing that concerns me about gcc vs. MSVC++ is not the speed of the > generated code, but it's size (which impacts startup performance, I/O > load, memory use etc.). If you checkout the tables you linked the binary > size column is quite stark: > > http://www.willus.com/ccomp_benchmark2.shtml?p18+s12 > http://www.willus.com/ccomp_benchmark2.shtml?p14+s12 > > in several cases a 2x growth. So - clearly this would need benchmarking > various ways to see what the story is there with -Os etc.
The other interesting thing in the table is that interprocedural optimization makes quite a difference with MSVC. It would be quite worth trying that one out with LO. -- Lubos Lunak [email protected] _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
