Re: [Chicken-users] optimization flags

[Brandon J. Van Every]

felix winkelmann wrote:
> On 9/7/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> > So no, I do not quite trust your benchmarking
> > methodologies.  I do not expect that you made things up about -Os, I
> > imagine you tested it somehow.  But, you may have undersampled it.
>
> The main reason -Os is used is that the generated output binaries are
> significantly smaller, and runtime performance is nearly identical
> to -Os.
>
> But I'm just a optimization jock, what do I know...
>
> Shit, I'm really annoyed.

How many optimization jocks have you had working on Chicken in the past, 
jockeying about stuff?  Not enough if you're actually annoyed.  ;-)  
Dude, I hopped from OCaml to Bigloo to Chicken, I'm sure you see a 
pattern there.  I made the smallest trade in performance that I could, 
in exchange for usability.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every