[GEM-dev] GemPixConvertAltivec...

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, james tittle wrote:

> ...-Os is preferred for optimized builds over -O2 or -O3,

Why? the GCC manual says that -Os is for "optimising for size", which 
isn't exactly optimising for speed. If code size has such a positive 
impact on speed, does that mean that the PowerPC caches are small and/or 
the bus of the main RAM is slow ?

Btw, -Os disables most alignment optimisations. I thought that most 
processors are quite sensitive to alignment; is that belief outdated?

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