[BusyBox] Why is it so bad...?

[Erik Andersen]

On Mon Jan 22, 2001 at 03:20:35PM -0500, Tom Cameron wrote:
> Erik,
> 	So does that mean that -O3 will enlarge the size of the final
> product due to enabling loop unrolling and inline functions, or am I
> misunderstanding what they are?  Thank you for your response, as my man
> pages don't have the -Os optimization rule in them (possibly an older
> version of the compiler, as the base system I'm assembling my busybox-based
> system on is Mandrake 7.0).  Again, thanks for all your help!

Yes. -O3 code will be slightly faster and slightly larger.  For the smallest
possible code, always use -Os if available.  An easy way to test is to grab
busybox, and try to compile it.  It tests and uses -Os if this option is
present.

 -Erik

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