Alessandro Coppo wrote:
> 
> To my knowledge, the maximum is -O3. Either it is a severily patched gcc, or
> a completely clueless marketing guy or... just misinformation.
>

O6 is legal in gcc, but AFAIK doesn't actually add anything to O3 - at least on
i386. The maximum for pgcc on i386 is O7.

> To current knowledge, Itanium is dreadfully slow (it has already been
> renamed by writers Itanic...)
> 

It is very slow with 32 bit code. I haven't seen any benchmark numbers with
native 64 bit code, but it is said to be quite fast.

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