On Mon, 02 Jun 2014, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 06/02/2014 05:07 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: > > For a lot of scientific packages, the upstream authors don't know what > > they're doing. So I'm not sure that's much of an argument. > > [citation needed] > > Also, it's easy to just play with the -O option and see what's faster.
As long as you have a way to regression-test. And I don't mean performance regressions, either. Although issues with -O3 are rare, they're not unheard of. And all bets are off when the C code has undefined behavior. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140602133601.ga25...@khazad-dum.debian.net