On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:50:52AM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:

> With "-xO3" it takes ~31 seconds to execute this script.
> With "-xc99=%all -xO4 -xalias_level=basic -xdepend" it takes ~39 seconds
> to execute this script.
> 
> Erm... the results are somehow upside-down from what I would expect from
> these options... ;-(

A typical response to that is that the function inlining that -xO4 turns on
makes small programs bigger, and less likely to fit in cache or in a set of
cache lines, resulting in memory thrashing and lower performance.  I expect
that cputrack(1m) would help you figure out if that's happening.

Danek
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