[Monotone-devel] Re: why is monotone so slow?

[Bruce Stephens]

Peter Simons <address@hidden> writes:

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> I have a related question: Is there any chance of compiling Monotone
> with more aggressive optimizing flags than -O2? It appears that
> using -O3 (I suspect: in-lining) breaks the code when compiling with
> gcc 3.3.4: Almost all "make check" tests fail when I try that.
>
> I seem to recall this this is a known problem, but is it also a
> problem that will be fixed "real soon now"? Because I suspect that
> being able to compile with in-lining would speed the program up
> significantly -- particularly C++ code.

I suggest profiling first, to try and find evidence of where any
performance problems are.  Otherwise there's a big danger of working
hard to get inlining to work only to find that the improvement is
trivial.