Retro: use -Os instead of -O2

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Artoria2e5 opened this issue 4 years ago · 4 comments

my laptop screen is dead and i cant be arsed to type on a phone or i would be sending a PR already

anyway apple does this extensively with clang, and I don't expect the performance to be terrible since we could be saving instruction cache

hell we could use -Oz on clang. who cares about auto vectorization on a pentium.

Answer 1 · 2020-10-03T02:24:57.000Z

I would, but honestly, on Pentium MMX, Pentium, and even 486 - I don't look forward to this prospect...

Answer 2 · 2020-10-03T02:25:53.000Z

@MingcongBai as I know, when memory is the bottleneck, the memory saved by -Os is precious and will really make performance better.

Answer 3 · 2020-10-03T02:35:35.000Z

@MingcongBai as I know, when memory is the bottleneck, the memory saved by -Os is precious and will really make performance better.

Might be worth a try, this is usually the issue with our target devices. But honestly, mostly with i486.

Answer 4 · 2020-10-03T02:46:27.000Z

However, I should note that with our i486's 508MiB installed size, over 200MiB goes to /usr/share.