Wow, some misinformation never dies.

Wow, some misinformation never dies.

Posted Aug 31, 2006 17:12 UTC (Thu) by g2boojum (subscriber, #152)
In reply to: Wow, some misinformation never dies. by rsidd
Parent article: Gentoo Linux 2006.1 released

>> That whole "Gentoo = ricer" thing is a load,

> No, it's historically what Gentoo was. It used to have options like
> -funroll-all-loops which nobody would recommend, and -O4 which doesn't even
> exist with gcc.

I could be wrong, but that doesn't agree with my recollection, and I've been using Gentoo since the 1.0_pre?? days. I remember using -O3 -pipe as the recommended default back then, and now we recommend -O2 -pipe. Yes, the current recommendation is more conservative, but not really by all that much. (It is also worth remembering that back then many distros compiled their software for i386 by default, so optimizing w/ march=i686 actually did make a noticeable difference.)

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