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Re: [Chicken-hackers] Why isn't OPTIMIZE_FOR_SPEED the default?


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] Why isn't OPTIMIZE_FOR_SPEED the default?
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 17:38:39 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

Peter Bex scripsit:

> Am I going completely mad and am I missing something obvious?  Is there
> a good reason why optimizing for speed isn't the default?  

It's no more than a guess, but historically -O2 and -O3 tickled bugs that
didn't appear at -O1.  Probably someone (Felix?) fell over such a bug
long ago, removed the -On argument, saw the bug go away, and left it
at that.  Ghu knows chicken's output is a torture test for C compilers.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        address@hidden
Where the wombat has walked, it will inevitably walk again.
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