new optimizations for lunar - part1

[Auke Kok]

Zbigniew Łuszpiński wrote:

>>On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:32:14AM +0200, Auke Kok wrote:
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>>>- the '-freorder-blocks' looks interesting, however I don't think there
>>>are many people who use -Os or -O1 optimization right now, so the
>>>usability is low again. However for the ISO's it might be of use, or
>>>anyone who's experimenting with smaller but still optimized code.
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>>I use -Os ;-) Never noticed much of a difference though. In case anyone was
>>interested in that information...
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>I also use -Os, people says we are in minority:
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>"- the '-freorder-blocks' looks interesting, however I don't think there 
>are many people who use -Os or -O1 optimization right now, so the 
>usability is low again."
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>Time to organize and fight to protect our little laws :-) :-P :-D
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>But to be serious:
>Sofar has right. Messing menu with useless options is bad. But the additional 
>function -freorder-blocks does not take much space in configuration menu 
>window. So why throwing it away? This function is optional - anyone can turn 
>it on/off. There is no so much options worth of adding to menu, I only know 2 
>more , they are not gcc options but passed to code being compilated.
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>>I still think it would be much better to have only optimization level, arch
>>and linker options and have a freeform entry for additional options some
>>(crazy) people would like.
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>I think that optimization wizard should be still available but at the end it 
>should display freeform with chosen options allowing to add/remove/modify 
>before saving finally. Newbies will simply save as it is, gcc optimization 
>maniacs will put all their crazyness into the freeform and then save.
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>>	Jasper
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>thanks, Jasper, for additional ideas :-) They look interesting and worth 
>implementing.
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>zbiggy
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Actually the whole discussion spurred me to rewrite the optimizations a 
bit more. I've committed the code ( including -freorder-blocks!! ;^) ) 
to 'theedge' so go ahead and try the new 'lunar optimize' menu (lin 
theedge first). Hopefully it's a bit more attractive and most of all: 
the menu flow is now not enforced, which means that if you don't bother 
to set specific options, the safe defaults are used.

I intend to add an extra option to this menu: "Safe", which will disable 
all non-safe options and set the optimizations to something sane as 
well. That should help a lot of worrying people.

sofar

PS: it looks like this: http://exchange.esa.int/~auke/opts.png