> > I've used -Os. I've compiled dozens and dozens of packages with -Os. It
> > has always saved at least a few bytes, I have yet to see it make
> > something larger. And in the benchmarks I've done, the smaller code
> > actually runs slightly faster. More of it fits in cache, you know.
>
> Then we don't we always use -Os?
I normally do, actually. Works For Me (tm). Dunno about all possible
architectures or all kernel versions, but then compiling WITHOUT -O2
apparently produces an unusable kernel due to some missing needed inlines,
so...
There's also a drive to "inline less stuff" underway, which I consider vaguely
related...
Rob
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