linuxcaffe; distros and desktops

[Austin]

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 18:54 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 03:20:11PM -0400, Noah John Gellner wrote
> > I have been wondering about the differences between -O2 and -O3. I
> > typically use -O2, but I am starting to experiment about -O3. For a P4
> > 2.4 w/ 684M of RAM, should -O3 be faster?
> 
>   There will be a little benefit, but not that much.

Yep.  And on occasion, it may add instability.  We had problems with
both mozilla and openoffice built at -O3.  We (Mandrake folks) build
everything at -O2 for the best balance of stability and speed.

Austin

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