From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 24 10:57:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7468937B401 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:57:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from guava.silverwraith.com (66-214-248-56.gln-eres.charterpipeline.net [66.214.248.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA91943EB2 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:57:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com) Received: (qmail 19040 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Dec 2002 18:57:50 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Dec 2002 18:57:50 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:57:50 -0800 (PST) From: Avleen Vig To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Benefits of -fomit-frame-pointer Message-ID: <20021224105527.L350@guava.silverwraith.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What kind of memory footprint reduction / speed increase can I expect if I compile with the -fomit-frame-pointer option? I already compile all of my ports with: -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -ffast-math -march=pentium ... but I'me hearing mixed views about -fomit-frame-pointer. I understand I won't be able to debug crashing programs, but for programs that are stable and not causing a problem, I see this as an option if it will make things run faster. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message