From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 08:54:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC9516A4CE; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:54:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout10.sul.t-online.com (mailout10.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C611743D2F; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:54:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd09.aul.t-online.de by mailout10.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1B5pB0-0002TU-03; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:54:54 +0100 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (XHt5U0ZAweuIhYbn4gnqytJo7c9xI7Mt5LibB0gTFpe87fIzOa-hkg@[217.83.29.165]) by fmrl09.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 1B5pAT-1gEdQ80; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:54:21 +0100 Received: from Magellan.Leidinger.net (Magellan.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.1]) i2NGsGjS017962; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:54:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Magellan.Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) i2NGsF4Y033669; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:54:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:54:15 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu Message-Id: <20040323175415.0b6e1bf2@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <40605576.3080604@alumni.rice.edu> References: <16479.30826.56912.226587@knock.econ.vt.edu> <20040322180728.F5352@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20040323121441.1e535e57@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <1080050628.777.2.camel@gyros> <20040323153753.4805898a@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <40605576.3080604@alumni.rice.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Seen: false X-ID: XHt5U0ZAweuIhYbn4gnqytJo7c9xI7Mt5LibB0gTFpe87fIzOa-hkg@t-dialin.net cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: Joe Marcus Clarke cc: "Russell D. Murphy Jr." Subject: Re: Mozilla crash and burn? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:54:58 -0000 On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:19:18 -0600 Jon Noack wrote: > I hope this isn't a stupid question, but why -Os instead of -O? -Os enables more optimizations than -O, but only those which don't increase the size too much. -O2 (and -O3) enable optimizations which may increase the size, this may results in code, which doesn't fit into the L1 (or L2) caches of a CPU anymore. Not running in the caches anymore result in a slowdown (if it's critical code). Bye, Alexander. -- I will be available to get hired in April 2004. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7