On 2012-08-14 at 09:01:22 [+0200], Simon Taylor <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 14/08/2012 07:26, Fredrik Holmqvist wrote: > > 2012/8/13 Joseph Prostko <joe.prostko@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> Yeah, I think for consistency, either we should use -O in both places, > >> or else -O3 -fno-strict-aliasing. [...] > > IIRC correctly I switched that from -O to -O3 long ago, in the hope > > that it would speed up build times. > > 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. If you build a complete image, a few seconds don't make much of a difference. Most of the time, however, developers only build one or two components repeatedly, so that the jam warm-up time becomes relevant. So some performance measuring would certainly be appreciated. CU, Ingo