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Re: Suggestion: Use -pipe by default
- To: Niels Möller <nisse at lysator dot liu dot se>
- Subject: Re: Suggestion: Use -pipe by default
- From: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 12:43:25 -0400
- Cc: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <nn3diarugs.fsf@sture.lysator.liu.se>
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 03:05:07PM +0200, Niels Möller wrote:
> Are there still many systems where -pipe doesn't work? I believe it
> would be a good thing to use -pipe by default.
I posted a question about this (in August or September I think),
since this is something which I occasionally try to turn on by default.
Somebody pointed out to me that, because the compiler and assembler are
running in parallel, memory usage goes up quite a bit.
I hadn't really noticed because we have craploads of RAM here, but the
average user might not want all of RAM and half the swap space given over
to the build process. It's something to consider.
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