On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> The slower is probably due to the unroll loops switch which can
> actually hurt code due to the larger footprint (less cache coherency).
The cache issues are so important with current processors that I'd suggest
throwing -Os (optimize for size) into the mix people test. That one may
stack usefully with -O2, but probably not with -O3 (3 includes
optimizations that increase code size).
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