[ale] gcc

[James P. Kinney III]

There is a gcc flag that turns on optimization. -O2 (that is the letter
Oh not the number zero) is about as good as gcc will do. You can do -O3,
but what I have read is that it mostly takes longer to compile.

Optimizing benefits are most often found through using good coding and
well tested algorithms.

A while back, some hardcore hacker had written a mini distribution in
assembler. Of course it only ran on intel. Which is why C was developed.

On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 20:52, Stephen Turner wrote:
> well im a noob to compilers especially linux so please
> forgive my ignorance.  how optimized can gcc optimize
> code? i almost started to learn about assembly but
> just read up a bit on it, from what i understand
> assembly is the machine code, it is specific to only
> an athelon  or only a k6 etc, (unless they share the
> same code?) asembly is the instruction set the
> processor speaks right? ahh well i just wanted to
> know, i want to get my code as optimized as possible
> and also wanted to experiment with it. please input :)
> 
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