On 29 Dec 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > Currently, our policy encourages or mandates -O2 compilation. > However, there are some certain programs for which -O3 is much better. > > One that I am aware of is bzip2. This is a processor-intensive > program that could certainly benefit from -O3.
Unless I'm mistaken, the Debian bzip2 already uses -O3: (From bzip2's ./Makefile) CFLAGS = -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops (Hehe, the upstream source came that way, so I never bothered to change it. <grin>) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineering http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, Canada Keep smiling! *^_^*
