linuxcaffe; distros and desktops

[Noah John Gellner]

I understand that more optimizations are turned on, but I have also
heard that as a result binaries are bigger. Thus improvements in program
'snappiness' are offset by slower launch times. Recently I am
increasingly sensitive to lauch time and want to find the right balance.

On 18:54 Sat 30 Oct     , 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.  According to the
> online gcc manual at...
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.2/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#Optimize-Options
> 
> -O3
>     Optimize yet more. -O3 turns on all optimizations specified by -O2
> and also turns on the -finline-functions, -fweb and -frename-registers
> options. 
> 
> -- 
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>
> Email users are divided into two classes;
> 1) Those who have effective spam-blocking
> 2) Those who wish they did
> --
> The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
> TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
> How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml
> 

-- 
Even Buddha punished evil - "Master Killer"
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml