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On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:57:06 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> I haven't measured it for IA32, but for a couple other |
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> architectures I have, and -Os generated consistently larger |
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> code than -O2. Using -O3 ballooned up to be quite a bit larger |
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> than both -Os and -O2, but if you're worried about size, -O2 |
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> usually seems to be the best choice. |
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I've just tried it on a few PPC packages and, on balance, there was a |
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small space saving, although it was hardly enough to get excited about. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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