Decoupling -O from -fvia-C

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Fri Dec 1 07:26:24 EST 2006


Hello Simon,

Friday, December 1, 2006, 12:42:33 PM, you wrote:

>> The only argument for having -O imply -fvia-C that I am aware of is
>> that -fvia-C code is slightly faster than -fasm on x86. This was not  
>> even the case on PowerPC, last time I checked.

> Yes, this has been at the back of my mind for a while.  We should change this.
> Please go forth and commit...

may be it's better to start with speed tests?


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