Re:GCC 4.9.0 released
by joosters on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @02:14PM
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"Most projects don't need LTO" is just opinion (to be fair, no-one needs LTO but it may still help many people)
Larger projects could stand to gain more from LTO because the code will likely be spread across many more files. As a result, the compiler is only seeing a very small percentage of the code when it compiles each file. Potentially then, the compiler is missing out more optimisations.
Larger projects could stand to gain more from LTO because the code will likely be spread across many more files. As a result, the compiler is only seeing a very small percentage of the code when it compiles each file. Potentially then, the compiler is missing out more optimisations.