Although I haven't done a bunch of tests with the kernel, in general on ia32
boxes, it's actually produces better code because the i386 architecture is
so register-starved.. so, in general, -fno-strength-reduce produces better
code.
> Does anybody have any numbers that show that it actually matters for the
> kernel (I know it matters a lot for some other things, but I'm looking for
> something that really makes a difference in kernel-land)?
Someone else will have to pipe up for this one but for the general case, what
is in there now is best.
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