RFR: 8210416: [linux] Poor StrictMath performance due to non-optimized compilation

[Andrew Haley]

On 09/05/2018 02:12 PM, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> Is there a good
> reason to not use -O3 -ffp-contract=off everywhere?

Is there a good reason to use -O3 rather than -O2? -O3 can bloat the
code which can increase cache pressure, which is not always noticeable
in benchmarks but hurts real-world programs. Unless benchmarks are
significantly better at -O3, -O2 is a good default choice.

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Andrew Haley
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