using non-standard optflags (-O3, in particular)

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:00:51PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 05:47:18PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > That's a good point. It should indeed be verified/benchmarked on the
> > most common arches supported. It is theoretically possible that
> > contributors share their benchmarks on the different platforms to
> > validate the results, but it is clearly not commonly happening in
> > fedora...
> 
> How about I include a specific benchmark test in build section that runs
> for, say, a minute, and then use that to auto-select between O2 and O3 on a
> per-build basis? :)

I would be personally happy with that. If there are other issues beside
speed I think that they should be handled at the level of gcc.

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Pat