From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Sizes of executables
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 16:48:25 +0000
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> > I don't know why the FAQ does not suggest -Os
> 
> Because I think it's not very wise (to say the least) to trade
> run-time speed for some KBytes on disk.

Hmm, maybe you are right that in the context of the FAQ the correct
advice is to use -O2.  (For desktop applications this is best).

The reason I asked about -Os was because I thought there might be
other objections to using it apart from the performance trade-off.

If this is not the case then it could be bad advice to say that -O2
gives the smallest code without knowing the user's application.