Re: [squid-users] -O2 vs -O3

I attempted to measure the difference way back in the stone ages (about
a year ago), and couldn't find enough difference to make any call.
Literally, the difference was around 3%...In the case of Polygraph
benchmarks and Squid 3% is not far from the margin of error. ;-)

Florin Andrei wrote:
> Is there any significant advantage to compile Squid with -O3 instead of
> -O2? (anyone saw improvements in the benchmarks?)
> Or perhaps add other compile optimisations? (without hurting stability,
> which is very important in this case)
>
> My other compile parameters are: "-march=i686 -D_REENTRANT".
> The target system will be a dual PIII Coppermine (256kB cache).
> I'm compiling with gcc-2.96-112 on Linux Red Hat 7.3. I'm using the same
> distribution on the target system.
>

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