Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 12:31 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 07:53 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
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>>>>On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 11:30 +0900, Warren Togami wrote:
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>>>>Going off at a tangent....what would people think of the idea of
>>>>switching to -Os in $RPM_OPT_FLAGS _after_ FC5 is released?
>>>
>>>If it results in some form of improvement in performance, I'm all for it.
>>
>>
>>The "s" in -Os stands for "size", not for "speed".
So if -Os compiled
>>code-execution is faster than the default CFLAGS, something must be
>>broken elsewhere.
>
>Not necessarily. The reduced size of the executable makes more
>efficient use of CPU cache, which can have a net result of increased
>speed as well.
I guess you have benchmarking code to prove this claim to upstream? ;)
Not personally, however other people at Red Hat do.
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