Re: -O -g

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:

> Jim Kingdon wrote:
>
> > The kind of thing which you describe has always been typical of what
> > happens with -O and -g.
>
> Why bother with -O?  Can't speak for other platforms, but compiling
> under Windows using VS 2003, I don't observe any slowdown running a
> debug only version of the Tk client.  This is on a 866 MHz Pentium III.
> I think this indicates that Tk is a super-pig super-bottleneck.
Pig perhaps, but bottleneck no. Xconq's critical paths don't involve
tcl's own code; that was a key criterion for adopting tcl. Check out
the map drawing code in any of the GUIs to see where the real
optimization struggle is going on.

Stan