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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:45 am    Post subject: -O2 or -Os Reply with quote

-O2 or -Os

Which is "better"? Why?
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you are worried about the final size of the compiled binaries, then use -Os, otherwise -O2.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 4:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Any speed difference either in compiling or binary performance?
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 4:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I'd say that -Os is better for machines with a limited amount of RAM or harddrive space, while more powerful machines would like -O2.

-O2 is more raw performance and -Os is performance with all of the flags that increase size filtered out. It makes your system use less RAM and less harddrive space.
Although -O2 would probably give you better 'raw performance.'

They both should compile at generally the same time.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 4:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Depends on your arch too.
If you've got a Via CPU, -Os. (Though I'm guessing you don't have this.)

JustGags wrote:
Any speed difference either in compiling or binary performance?

What kind of hardware to you have?
Anything modern you probably won't notice enough of a difference either way.
Some software probably can benefit from optimizations from both, but it depends on the package.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 5:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

IMHO, -Os is better than -O2 for most things, but there were a few things that broke for me with -Os and GCC4, so I run -O2 for just about everything (mmm laziness).

-Os I think might compile slightly slower (this is entirely in my imagination, not a hard fact :) )

Since my computer has some kinda slow buses between HD, RAM, and the P4, I'd really like to go with -Os, because I'd notice the difference... even though it's just a little and mostly psychological.

The choice really depends on you and your system.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

-Os = -O2 + small_size_where_appropriate
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moved from Portage & Programming to Duplicate Threads. Too many topics like CFLAGS Central (Part 2) about this.
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