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

[John Cowan]

Peter Bex scripsit:

> Cool, that's useful info!  What is -Ofast?  Is it -O3, or something higher?

-Ofast has more optimizations than -O3.  -Os has the same optimizations
as -O2 *except* those which typically increase code size, plus more
optimizations that reduce code size.

Nitty-gritty at <https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html>.

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