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Re: to reduce footprint
- From: Lin George <george4academic at yahoo dot com>
- To: Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:11:50 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: to reduce footprint
Thanks Ben! That's a good explanation. I will have a try.
regards,
George
----- Original Message ----
From: Ben Elliston <bje@au1.ibm.com>
To: Lin George <george4academic@yahoo.com>
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>; binutils@sourceware.org
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 7:20:43 AM
Subject: Re: to reduce footprint
> Thanks Ian. After reading the manual for -Os, it seems that using -Os
> can both achieve the better performance and reduce the footprint. Is
> that correct?
Sometimes, yes. On some machines, there is a good performance gain if
you can reduce code size such that more of the frequently executed code
is retained in the instruction cache.
Ben
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