Re: Optimization levels when compiling PostgreSQL...

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Sean Chittenden wrote:

> I'm thinking about changing this from a beta port to a -devel port
> that I'll periodically update with snapshots.  I'll turn on -O6 for
> the -devel port and -O2 for production for now.  If I don't hear of
> any random bogons in the code I'll see if I can't increase it further
> to -O3 and beyond at a slow/incremental rate.

Keep in mind that, while gcc is pretty stable for i386, the higher
optimization levels (above -O2) do tend to have bogons on other
processors, that vary with which version of gcc you're running.

cjs
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