Re: C++11 in LibreOffice

On Thursday 19 of July 2012, Michael Meeks wrote:
>       Having said that, I totally agree, our problems are 95% algorithmic,
> and fiddling with compiler optimiser settings is the last refuge of the
> desperate man ;-)
>
>       The thing that concerns me about gcc vs. MSVC++ is not the speed of the
> generated code, but it's size (which impacts startup performance, I/O
> load, memory use etc.). If you checkout the tables you linked the binary
> size column is quite stark:
>
>       http://www.willus.com/ccomp_benchmark2.shtml?p18+s12
>       http://www.willus.com/ccomp_benchmark2.shtml?p14+s12
>
>       in several cases a 2x growth. So - clearly this would need benchmarking
> various ways to see what the story is there with -Os etc.

 The other interesting thing in the table is that interprocedural optimization 
makes quite a difference with MSVC. It would be quite worth trying that one 
out with LO.

-- 
 Lubos Lunak
 l.lunak@suse.cz