Re: Gnome success report, optimized compiling

[Kevin Miller <sar hempseed com>]

Have you compiled gimp as such also? It really flies too...

I compiled w/ optimizations about a week ago, and I had the same results,
I didnt compile with so many, just -06 -mpentium, and it made a big
difference compared to -02's speed.

sar

On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Richard Hult wrote:

> 
> I have been a bit concerned over the fact that gnome has been kind of huge
> and slow and sucking every piece of perfomance out of my P166. So, last
> night I decided to compile everything myself instead of using the RPMS.
> 
> My knowledge of the different optimization flags for the compiler isn't the
> best, so I took some of the flags found on mandrake's page (hope that's fine
> with you mandrake ;) and ended up with the following:
> 
> -O6 -finline-functions -fkeep-inline-functions -funroll-loops -mpentium -mcp
> u=pentium -march=pentium -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2
> 
> I kind of kept the things that sounded familiar from my 'modern compiler
> implementation' course last semester ;)
> 
> I also used egcs instead of gcc. I started with glib and gtk+ and continued
> with the rest. Everything went fine, except when compiling gtk-xmhtml in the
> gnome-libs package. Something went wrong and make exited with an error
> message for the file frame.po (right after trying to compile frame.c).
> 
> Since there was no real error message, it just said something like "ERROR",
> and exited, I suspected that it had to do with the optimizations, so I
> manually edited CFLAGS in the Makefile for gtk-xmhtml to -O2, and everything
> worked fine.
> 
> When everthing was done, I started the panel up. Wow!!! It's f-a-s-t!! It's
> mean and lean and quick :) My worries went away finally :) And the memory
> footprint went donw rather drastically too, from huge to little.
> 
> So now that I know what's waiting for Gnome 1.0, I'll turn debugging back on
>:)
> 
> Thanks for a great piece of work!!
> Richard
> 
> 
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