On Dec 24, 2017, at 04:36, Chris Jones wrote:

> In general its not possible to say one setting will always perform better 
> than another,  its very use case dependant. For instance if you really want 
> maximum numerical performance then -O3 can give significant gains, as it 
> turns on a number of optimisations that can really help, like auto 
> vectorisation. But, you would not want that as the default as some use cases 
> might not like it. Its fine to have a default, but i would suggest each port 
> should use whatever upstream has decided is its best optimisation level.

Ports are free to override configure.optflags if desired.

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