On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
In my experience, -Os produced faster code on gcc-2.95 than -O2 or -O3.On what CPU? The effect of different optimisations varies hugely between different CPUs (and architectures).It was not only because of cache considerations, but because gcc used different tricks to avoid poor optimizations, and at the end, the CPU ended executing the alternative code faster.-Os is "as fast as you can without bloating the code size", so that is the expected result for CPUs that don't need special hand-holding around certain performance pitfalls.
this sounds like you are saying that people wanting performance should pick -Os.
what should people pick who care more about code size then anything else? (examples being embedded development where you may be willing to sacrafice speed to avoid having to add additional chips to the design)
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