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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> 
> The more interesting question, then, is whether users run any
> non-trivial cpu-bound programs. We know the applied science types do,
> but they tend to be the ones who're doing clever things with icc
> anyway. What about normal users?
> 

I'm sure they do on some occasion if they encode compressed audio/video, 
or when compressing data with zip/etc.  That is probably the biggest 
application of cpu-bound software.

Personally, I use -Os across the board when it doesn't break.  As you 
said I tend to be memory/IO bound, and optimizing for size helps with 
both (swapping causes IO).  I'd probably benefit from using -O3 on the 
aforementioned CPU-intensive apps.
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