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Re: to reduce footprint

From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
To: Lin George <george4academic at yahoo dot com>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: 20 Dec 2006 09:40:05 -0800
Subject: Re: to reduce footprint
References: <20061220173432.47467.qmail@web32110.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Lin George <george4academic@yahoo.com> writes:

> Thanks Ian. After reading the manual for -Os, it seems that using -Os can both achieve the better performance and reduce the footprint. Is that correct?
> If yes, it is amazing that both size can be reduced the speed is faster. Because I think speed and size are balanced parameters -- if you increase speed, the footprint will be worse (bigger). Any comments?
> 
> BTW: Quote from manual > -Os is ok to optimize for speed.

-Os is equivalent to -O2, except that when there is a time/space
tradeoff it optimizes to reduce space.

Ian

References:
- Re: to reduce footprint
  - From: Lin George

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