Re: Link-time optimization in debian packages

2011-06-06 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Adam Borowski [110606 01:15]: > On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 01:18:43PM +0200, Emil Langrock wrote: > > I played around a little bit with GCC's LTO [4]. It is really impressive > > for > > this kind of applications. I had a size reduction and speed increase with > > the > > tested applications. O

Re: Link-time optimization in debian packages

2011-06-05 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 01:15:29AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Speed gains for compiled executables are great, though: around 20%[2]. It depends. I have code where using -flto causes no significant improvement (< 2%) in some cases and major performance losses (-7 to -37%) in others. This is no

Re: Link-time optimization in debian packages

2011-06-05 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 01:18:43PM +0200, Emil Langrock wrote: > I played around a little bit with GCC's LTO [4]. It is really impressive for > this kind of applications. I had a size reduction and speed increase with the > tested applications. Of course, it was just a small testset and not reall

Re: Link-time optimization in debian packages

2011-06-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 01:18:43PM +0200, Emil Langrock wrote: > Hi, > > I have currently the problem that I have to use large, computing intensive > applications [1,2]. These are usually implemented in many source files. I > used > in the past pseudo c files which include all other c files [3]