Warp wrote:
> Roz <Rzl### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> 
>>CXXFLAGS = -g
> 
> 
>   Don't use -g.
>   That flag is for debugging purposes only. Since you are compiling a final
> version with extreme optimizations, -g is not only useless and cause the
> binary to be uselessly large (until stripped), but it even *might* contradict
> with some optimizations, thus resulting in a slightly less optimized binary
> (perhaps this is not the case, but it could be).
> 

NetBSD does not have a gcc 3+ packages yet but I compiled it from source 
using the compiler glags suggested by you and Roz.

This turns out to give a major speed gain, I've attached some data in 
case anyone is interested.

Rob

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