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Barry.SCHWARTZ@×××××××××××××.org posted |
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20060928191638.GA5413@××××××××××××.org, excerpted below, on Thu, 28 Sep |
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2006 14:16:38 -0500: |
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> "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@××××××××××.net> skribis: |
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>> It's wrong-headed to deride or discourage users for using the features |
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>> of their compiler when those functions are not erroneous. Instead, you |
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>> should be leaning on the developers to fix the erroneous code. |
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> This looks like a false dichotomy to me. |
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> IMO people ought to use -O2 unless they are using a different setting for |
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> some specific purpose, including but not limited to ‘having fun’. |
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Well stated. One could compare -O2 to stable. Fancier CFLAGS then are |
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the logical parallel of running ~arch or even masked packages. If you |
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have a good reason to do so, including fun, and have the knowledge, time, |
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and interest to fix the occasional problems when they do occur, there's |
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nothing wrong with it, but those that just want something that works with |
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the least hassle are better off with stable, and vanilla CFLAGS such as |
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-march=k8 -pipe -O2 (only). |
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Happily, I'm in the group that likes the fun and has the |
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time/interest/developing-knowledge to run the fun stuff, and Gentoo makes |
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it easy, as it exposes all that power to my itchy little tweaking fingers! |
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=8^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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