On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:55:20AM -0700, Robert Love wrote:
> I know this...maybe I am not being clear. I realize -Os is a derivate
> of -O2, but is it not an interesting note if -Os can be as fast (or
> faster) than -O2 and still generate smaller binaries? That is my point.
I've seen it beeing faster with gcc 2.95. Alan's point was (and I think
the explanation is plausible) is that it is faster exactly _because_ it
produces smaller code due to the instruction cache behaviour of many
current CPUs.
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