On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> Except in cases where it does. Compiler designers are smart guys...
> smart enough to know that certain instruction arrangements take
> better advantage of a CPUs pipeline, then other arrangements of the
> same or similar instructions.
But apparently not smart enough to turn on these optimisations when
-O is selected, whereas Gentoo users are smart enough to know which
to turn on.
Maybe compilers should be written by Gentoo users?
Btw, what are you favourite compiler flags?
regards,
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