Re: [OT] Re: code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug]

From: Paul
Date: Sat Oct 30 2004 - 23:47:35 EST


Tim Connors <tconnors+linuxkernel1099190446@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on Sun Oct 31, 2004 [01:42:34 PM] said:
> Ken Moffat <ken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said on Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:09:54 +0000 (GMT):
> > and the time to load it is irrelevant. Since then I've had an anecdotal
> > report that -Os is known to cause problems with gnome. I s'pose people
> > will say it serves me right for doing my initial testing on ppc which
> > didn't have this problem ;) The point is that -Os is *much* less tested
> > than -O2 at the moment.
>
> Because people suck, and don't use it and hence test it.
>
> Ie, test it!
>
> I can't, because I prefer to stay away from gnome instead.
>

Hi;

Ive been using -Os as my default compile flag under
Gentoo for probably over 2 years now. Havent noted any real
problems, and thats nearly 3gig of compressed source code
compiled on what is just my current system image.
(Well, I might suck a little because I havent done any
benchmarks or comparisons as to the actual benifits of doing
so. Also, I use fvwm;)

Paul
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