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Re: Why not 03 ?



On Mon, 02 Jun 2014, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 06/02/2014 05:07 AM, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > For a lot of scientific packages, the upstream authors don't know what
> > they're doing. So I'm not sure that's much of an argument.
> 
> [citation needed]
> 
> Also, it's easy to just play with the -O option and see what's faster.

As long as you have a way to regression-test.  And I don't mean performance
regressions, either.  Although issues with -O3 are rare, they're not unheard
of.  And all bets are off when the C code has undefined behavior.

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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