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Subject: Re: CONFIG_TINY
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 19:26, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > Then we don't we always use -Os?
> 
> 1 - I'm not sure all versions of gcc support it, as in "it generates
> correct code."

2.95 built with -Os was I believe used by Caldera and turned out faster
code than -O2. For 3.2  -O2 appears faster  {yes I know
microbenchmarking is not the full picture}


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