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gcc40 builds smaller executables
I've seen the liturature saying that gcc40 builds larger and
slower executables than gcc3, but (for me) the files are in
fact slightly smaller. Just a few examples:
I tried building the 'zip' package and here are the files
from gcc34:
62140 May 10 20:02 zip*
26772 May 10 20:02 zipcloak*
22588 May 10 20:02 zipnote*
23292 May 10 20:02 zipsplit*
from gcc40:
61692 Jun 13 09:38 zip*
26708 Jun 13 09:38 zipcloak*
22524 Jun 13 09:38 zipnote*
23548 Jun 13 09:38 zipsplit*
Only one of the four files is larger with gcc40, three are smaller.
Some kernel modules, picked at random:
gcc34:
369790 Jun 12 08:21 acpi.ko
402818 Jun 12 08:21 digi.ko
gcc40:
365814 Jun 13 09:05 acpi.ko
402536 Jun 13 09:05 digi.ko
Bear in mind that I routinely use the march=athlon-xp flag which
generates significantly bigger files than the i686 flag, so YMMV.
I can't comment on the 'slower executable' claims -- I've done
no benchmarking of any kind.
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