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[jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 24/05/2015 00:04, Simon Richter a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> On 23.05.2015 20:18, jp charras wrote:
> 
>> Sorry to say that, but what is the interest of this work:
> 
> Now that is a good question. My initial goal was to basically shave
> a few percents off in text size and get a bit of extra speed, just
> by setting a few compiler flags.

I understand.


> 
> I'm happy to put this on the back burner, because it isn't worth 
> investing a lot of effort into it, but it'd be one item off my
> list.

Make sense: it is more tricky as expected!

> 
>> - You said in a previous mail the link time is longer with LTO
>> than without LT0, and this is a serious issue for developers (the
>> compil time is often short when editing a few sources, so a
>> longer link time is an issue)
> 
> It's only enabled for Release builds -- it relies on the optimizer 
> actually doing something anyway, so Debug builds should be
> unaffected.
> 
> Simon


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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS