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Re: [RFC] Enabling loop unrolls at -O3?
Steven Bosscher wrote:
You must not have been paying attention to one of the most frequent
complaints about gcc, which is that it is dog slow already ;-)
Sure, but to me -O2 says you don't care much about compilation time.
As I say for complete large applications, I am not sure -O2 gains
that much over -O2 in performance so you are asking to squeeze out
a small amount of performance at the expense of compile time. It
seems wrong in such a case to shy away from an optimization on the
grounds that it improves performance but increases compile time.
I am not clear what the philosophy of the difference between -O2
and -O3 is supposed to be ...