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Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 22:46, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> I think we can both agree that all is in the balance between code quality
> improvement and compilation speed degradation.
FWIW, I'd gladly accept compilation being 2-3 times slower for a 5-10%
gain in execution speed at high optimisation levels,
from both my home user and work user point of view.
At low optimisation levels, I'd love a switch that makes optimisations
that are somewhat cheap relatively to -O2/3 at the compile time level,
reduce generated code and debug information size for faster linking than
-O0 and still allow perfect debugging ("-Od"?).
BTW, people with old machines always have the choice of staying with old
software too.
Laurent