On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:20:53AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > I'm using apt-build right now to build some key libraries with > -mcpu=ev56 -O3 and hope that'll do the trick, but at the same time, I'm > wondering if ccc would do better -- and how easy it is to use it in > place of gcc.
I suggest avoiding -O3. Its optimizations can often hurt performance. Even -O2 is often overkill. In some simple tests on my 667mhz ev56 gcc-3.3 with '-mcpu=ev56 -Os' produced faster code than any of -O[123] when building libjpeg and resulted in 20-30% smaller binaries. (with such a small cache, code footprint really matters) Save the -O3 or -O2 for profiled hotspots in the code where you can prove that they're better. Overall they just add bloat which increases load time, disk, ram and memory cache thrashing. -g
