loader breaks with -O2 optimizations

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Thu Nov 1 04:53:58 PDT 2007


"Stephan F. Yaraghchi" <stephan at yaraghchi.org> writes:
> By the way: "BSD Hacks" is a collection of hacks compiled by Dru.
> Hack #69 deals with tuning and is authored by Avleen Vig.
> It says: "The -funroll-loops saves one CPU register that would otherwise
> be tied up in tracking the iteration of the loop, but at the expense of making
> a slightly larger binary."

Avleen Vig is a clueless ****.  I've rebutted his "tuning advice"
several times in the past.  I'm sorry to hear that Dru lends him her
authority.

DES
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