<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 8:10 PM, Fred Wright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fw@fwright.net" target="_blank">fw@fwright.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1m0" class="a3s aXjCH m156fcd5103e18cb3">But when they switched to Intel, they also switched<br>
to -O2. This allowed them to inflate the performance benefit of the<br>
architecture switch. :-)</div></blockquote></div><br>...as long as -O2 worked. Experience from FreeBSD and from early MacPorts experiments with -O2 is that it took -O2 a long time to actually generate correct code in a majority of cases.</div><div class="gmail_extra">That said, it might be worth looking at again --- but, -O2 reportedly still causes occasional problems for some programs, so be ready to bail back to -Os.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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