Re: Size of binaries
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 02:55:21PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 3 May 2002 22:48:08 +0100, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> said:
>
> Matthew> -rwxr-xr-x 1 willy Debian 9778176 May 3 15:32 stage1.cc
> Matthew> -rwxr-xr-x 1 willy Debian 5274160 May 3 15:32 stage2.cc
>
> Matthew> An even more impressive 46% reduction in size. I have no
> Matthew> idea how typical this is and I haven't attempted to
> Matthew> quantify runtime performance yet -- it's still
> Matthew> bootstrapping itself. But I thought these results were
> Matthew> sufficiently interesting to comment on.
>
> Isn't this difference due to the stage1 compiler being compiled
> without -O2? gcc/ia64 generates horribly inefficient code without at
> least -O.
Hmm.. I didn't log the build (doh!) but looking in config.status:
s%@CFLAGS@%-g -O2%g
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