why is FC5 still compiled at -O2

sean seanlkml at sympatico.ca
Tue Mar 28 16:57:40 UTC 2006


On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:56:16 -0500 (EST)
howarth at bromo.msbb.uc.edu (Jack Howarth) wrote:

>     Is there any plans to eventually move the builds of Fedora from
> -O2 to -O3? It would seem that we are leaving some performance
> optimization laying on the table by not doing so.

Actually there is some serious talk of having FC6 userland compiled
with -Os.   Which seems counterintuitive but actually ends up giving
better performance overall on modern CPU's than any of the 
alternatives.

Sean




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