Re: -Os for Darwin why?

Message-Id: <20030217191403.A17553@ttul.org>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@18740

diff --git a/hints/darwin.sh b/hints/darwin.sh
index 7565935..4fa2254 100644 (file)
--- a/hints/darwin.sh
+++ b/hints/darwin.sh
@@ -52,7 +52,11 @@ archname='darwin';
 # nm works.
 usenm='true';
 
-# Optimize.
+#    Optimizing for size also mean less resident memory usage on the part
+# of Perl.  Apple asserts that this is a more important optimization than
+# saving on CPU cycles.  Given that memory speed has not increased at
+# pace with CPU speed over time (on any platform), this is probably a
+# reasonable assertion.
 if [ -z "${optimize}" ]; then
   case "$osvers" in
     [12345].*) optimize='-O3' ;;