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From: Sascha Hlusiak <saschahlusiak@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS  "...-O3 -pipe" vs "...O2 <no pipe>"
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 21:57:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704082157.09565.saschahlusiak@arcor.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <739325.15429.qm@web31706.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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> One suggests using -O3 -pipe, the other, -O2 without
> the pipe.
>
> How much difference does this make? Is the extra level
> of optimization with pipe the equivalent of the lower
> level without?

From the gcc manpage:
-pipe
Use pipes rather than temporary files for communication between the various 
stages of compilation.  This fails to work on some systems where the 
assembler is unable to read from a pipe; but the GNU assembler has no 
trouble.

The pipe is only for speeding up the compiling process. It does not speed up 
binaries. 

The -O3 contains some more optimizations than -O2, which can result in much 
bigger applications and may be contraproductive. The -O2 is widely 
recommended, but I guess you won't feel a big difference anyway. See man gcc 
for a more detailled description. 


- Sascha

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-09  2:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-09  1:48 [gentoo-user] CFLAGS "...-O3 -pipe" vs "...O2 <no pipe>" maxim wexler
2007-04-09  1:57 ` Sascha Hlusiak [this message]
2007-04-09  5:47 ` Andrey Gerasimenko
2007-04-09  8:28   ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-09 12:40 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2007-04-09 13:43   ` Francisco Rivas
2007-04-10 14:29     ` maxim wexler
2007-04-10 14:58       ` Uwe Thiem
2007-04-10 15:17         ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-04-10 15:29         ` Francisco Rivas
2007-04-10 15:55           ` Tony Stohne
2007-04-10 16:40             ` Andrey Vul
2007-04-10 18:48               ` maxim wexler
2007-04-10 19:01                 ` Francisco Rivas
2007-04-10 19:10                   ` Davi
2007-04-10 19:45                     ` Uwe Thiem
2007-04-10 19:50                       ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-04-10 19:56                       ` Jesús Guerrero
2007-04-10 20:08                         ` Davi
2007-04-10 20:15                           ` Jesús Guerrero
2007-04-10 20:24                             ` Davi
2007-04-10 22:03                               ` Ryan Sims
2007-04-11  0:34                                 ` Davi
2007-04-11 10:02                           ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2007-04-10 21:22                         ` [gentoo-user] " Uwe Thiem
2007-04-10 21:08                       ` Dan Farrell
2007-04-10 19:52                     ` Renat Golubchyk
2007-04-10 19:39                 ` Uwe Thiem
2007-04-11  9:39                 ` Daniel Iliev
2007-04-11 10:08                   ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-04-11 10:56                     ` Daniel Iliev
2007-04-11 11:05                       ` Davi
2007-04-11 11:44                       ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-04-11 12:37                         ` Francisco Rivas
2007-04-11 12:45                         ` Daniel Iliev
2007-04-10 15:29       ` Jesús Guerrero

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