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Re: Large code size?
- To: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik at tiuk dot ti dot com>
- Subject: Re: Large code size?
- From: Sam Lantinga <slouken at devolution dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:49:16 -0800
- Cc: egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
> H . J . Lu <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> >> We built robotcom.so with the compiler flags:
> >> g++ -O2 -funroll-loops -fno-exceptions -DLINUX_BETA -D_REENTRANT
> >> and the linker flags:
> >> cc -shared -nostartfiles -s -o robotcom.so ...
> Is not -funroll-loops by definition going to make things larger?
Yup, but the speedup is worth the small size increase.
It was the Megabytes of size increase that we were worried about.
-Sam Lantinga (slouken@devolution.com)
Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software
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