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From: "William A. Barath" <wi534 AT victoria DOT tc DOT ca>
Subject: Re: Pointer to ... and a question
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Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 10:58:02 GMT
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On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Fabrice ILPONSE wrote:
|William A. Barath wrote:
|> On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
|> |Of course, it's documented.  Here's a fragment from gcc's Info docs:
|> |
|> |  `-O3'
|> |       Optimize yet more.  `-O3' turns on all optimizations specified by
|> |       `-O2' and also turns on the `inline-functions' option.
|> 
|> Which will make your program faster if it doesn't bloat it to the point
|> that it can no longer be efficiently cached...
|
|	I always use the -O2 option. I prefer keeping the function call rather
|inlining function that'll make my prog bigger (When i'm programming, i
|allways take in account the function calls)!!

I will use the -O3 when I feel lazy and I want something to run at best
speed, and it makes the program faster.  But if I'm releasing software in
binary form you can be sure I will profile it and only apply inlining to
specific functions that will make a difference.

Wil Barath, aka WseM : "I feel as though I see my pen to write"
Author of VPM, EDITPLN, and other VGA Planets support programs
Visit my homepage! -------------> http://victoria.tc.ca/~wi534