Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:21:18 +0200 | Subject | Re: PATCH][RFC][resend] CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE should default to N | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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Hi Jesper,
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> wrote: > I believe that the majority of systems we are built on want a -O2 compiled > kernel. Optimizing for size (-Os) is mainly benneficial for embedded > systems and systems with very small CPU caches (correct me if I'm wrong).
Please take a look at commit 0910b44 ("Expose "Optimize for size" option for everybody") for the reasoning behind defaulting to -Os.
Pekka
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