Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes: > its compiled --without-debug --with-optimization (or however those > are named) and with -O3 compiler optimization. believe me, it can't > be optimized anymore then it is as far as build opts. > > unless of course -O3 is bogus and harmful on powerpc... i wouldn't > know. I would do benchmarking with both -O2 and -O3; some applications run faster under -O2.