Re: [Chicken-users] Egg <-> Chicken version compatibility

[Felix]

> 
> But the real reason it went wrong in this particular case is that people
> should NOT be using these hyper-specific flags for compiling eggs
> intended for public consumption unless there's a really good reason to
> do so.

Absolutely.

> 
> It's just an optimization flag, and I think if people need to squeeze
> every last drop of performance for an egg it's probably better to expect
> them to pass this option when compiling the egg through CSC_OPTIONS.

Even better is to use "declare". Unknown declarations give a warning
but will be ignored.

> 
> I think egg authors should be cautious and generally only use the
> switches -O1, -O2 etc (that's O the letter, not the number :P)
> by default.

Right, indeed.


cheers,
felix