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From: Waldemar Schultz <schultz AT ma DOT tum DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Executable size: limit to acceptability?
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:45:00 +0100
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Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel schrieb:
> 
> On 12 Jan 00, at 16:44, Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> >
> > IIRC, -O2 is better than -O3 much of the time.
> 
> If this is the case as you put it, could you please tell us why even
> the makefile in Allegro uses the -O3 option?
> 
> IMHO I use the -O3 option and it has generated better code than
> the -O2 option also without introducing any optimizer bugs.
> 
> Kalum

BTW can anyone explain the reason or benefits for using -O6 I often found in
DJGPP distributions please.

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