Minimizing X.org 6.8.1 (not KDrive) to meet specs

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2004-09-23 at 17:57, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> -O3 and such doesn't imply better performance in all cases. You should do
> some benchmarking to be sure.

-O3 is generally the slowest option of all because it aggressively
unrolls loops. Short of specialist FP cases for Xeons its probably not
useful.

> I was surprised to find -Os faster than -O2 during some tests, but then it
> was on a VIA C3, which is notorious for not having much cache...

If you build the entire gnome desktop its faster -Os on many machines,
as is open office. Cache is king.