2012/8/14 Simon Taylor <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 14/08/2012 07:26, Fredrik Holmqvist wrote: > Apart from the ...patience... bit of the jam I suspect the vast majority of > the build time is spent in the compiler, so jam's optimisation settings > probably don't have a great deal of impact. But the cost of changing it was near to zero so in regarding performance compared to work it goes towards infinity... :P You never know before you try, otherwise it's just speculation. While I was working on improving what jam prints it was a good change to try out. Anyway back on topic. I'd try most things that reduces build times, so if we can do better than -O why not try it. It's an easy to revert change. Here's what gcc says: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html /Fredrik Holmqvist, TQH