Re: do u get better performance from optimizing the code

Måns Rullgård (mru@users.sourceforge.net)
15 May 2002 15:52:14 +0200


"Kingsley Foreman" <kingsley@uglypunk.com> writes:

> just out of curiosity will the kernel perform better if you
> change the optimizations using C++ eg use -O9 or something during compile

The kernel is written in C, so don't use a C++ compiler. GCC has four
levels of optimization:
0 = nothing
1 = -O, simple things
2 = some more
3 = function inlining etc.

Anyting >3 is treated as 3.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@users.sf.net
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