LTO doesn't guarantee anything
LTO doesn't guarantee anything
Posted Feb 22, 2018 13:26 UTC (Thu) by davez (guest, #104707)Parent article: Shrinking the kernel with an axe
Just a reminder that LTO doesn't guarantee anything. One should always verify that LTO yields the desired result, be it smaller files or better performance. The output quality of LTO often just depends on inlining tradeoffs in the compiler.