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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LTO use in the tree
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 18:10:49
Message-Id: CAEdQ38EobbNo75VN7F7reG8TZ6NTTJ35CQLJ5VARBO=hHDcm_w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: LTO use in the tree by Ryan Hill
1 > One thing I forgot to mention - LTO can also have detrimental effect on certain
2 > architectures. On some (eg. ppc), performance can actually be degraded due to
3 > increased register pressure. On others like alpha it's questionable if it'll
4 > even work at all...
5
6 Worked for me on alpha, at least for what I tried. It cut eix's binary
7 from 2 to 1.3 MB as well.

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[gentoo-dev] Re: LTO use in the tree Ryan Hill <rhill@g.o>