Re: [Gimp-developer] Ways to improve Gimp 2.9 performance

[Carsten Juttner <carjay gmx net>]

On 03/02/2013 03:55 PM, Nicolas Robidoux wrote:
> If anybody wonders why -march=native is not used by these libraries by
> default, it's because it makes the binaries non-portable.
>
> Also, the default build uses -g, which turns on debugging, for obvious
> reasons, but which of course gets in the way of performance.

As far as I am aware the gcc option -g only adds debugging information
(e.g. for gdb) but will not change the optimization level.
So if these debug sections are stripped off the resulting executable
will be identical.

Why do you think it will affect performance?



Regards,
Carsten