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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kconfig: -O3 enablement
Date:   Thu, 23 Jun 2022 19:00:47 +0200
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On Thursday, 23 June 2022 17:44:57 CEST Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 12:42 AM Miko Larsson <mikoxyzzz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 22 June 2022 03:57:34 CEST Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > > If you want to say "use this option carefully",
> > > EXPERT might be another option.
> > > 
> > >     depends on ARC || EXPERT
> > 
> > Yeah, this would be a fair compromise, though I think it would be
> > better to use "visible if" instead of "depends on". I can get a v2 of
> > the series together if this is desired.
> 
> Why is "visible if" better than "depends on"?
> 

Technically it most likely doesn't matter, but logically it makes more
sense, since we'd make CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 be visible if
we're on ARC or if we have EXPERT enabled, instead of depending on
them. But yeah, it probably doesn't matter.

--
~miko