Neil Conway writes: > However, it does appear that we can tweak flex for more performance > (usually at the expense of a larger generated parser). In particular, it > looks like we could use "-Cf" or "-CF". Is this a good idea?
Probably. Run some performance tests if you like. It looks like -CFea might be a reasonable candidate. > While we're on the subject of minor optimizations, is there a reason why > we execute gcc with "-O2" rather than "-O3" during compilation? Mainly because everyone does it this way. Probably because it's a reasonable compromise between execution speed, compilation speed, debuggability, and compiler bugs. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
