Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:02:57AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >> For Etch and Sid, it is probably a good idea to use -Os instead of -O2 at >> least on the bigger arches (ia32, ia64, amd64, etc), as we can probably >> trust gcc not to screw up. > > If gcc generally generates faster code with -Os than -O2, then isn't > that a gcc bug, in that the optimizations enabled by -O2 are incorrectly > picked? > > [Also, are there that man AMD64 machines with limited memory? Or IA64?]
Initialiy this was for people with older computers, not a 2 GHz amd64 with 2GB ram. Think P90 with 64Mb or slightly better. We are not talking "generally" here but "specific". Specific to certain hardware. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]