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Message-ID: <20111026062237.GA8419@albatros>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:22:37 +0400
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: %optflags for new gcc
Solar,
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 08:52 +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
> 1. Use -Os instead of -O2. BTW, the kernel already builds with -Os.
> In my (limited) testing, -Os results in significantly smaller code that
> is about as fast as -O2's (and is sometimes faster than -O2's).
IMHO -O2 is much, MUCH better and more consistent. I heard numerous
complains about -Os like -Os doesn't do it's job well providing code
which is even bigger than with -O2. Also sometimes -O2 is faster by
order of magnitudes.
I didn't thoroughly compared both variants, though. I suppose the
latest versions of gcc were improving -O2 optimizations, but not -Os,
and the profit of -Os might be negligible in most (not all) cases.
--
Vasiliy
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