Default release compilation with -O3 #86

1. 
   sipa commented at 9:36 am on November 2, 2014: contributor

   @theuni it seems -O3 performs significantly better (at least on my system) compared to -O2. Is there a way to make that default?
2. 
   gmaxwell commented at 4:07 am on November 23, 2014: contributor

   Sure, after AC_INIT but before AC_PROG_CC add a

   0if test -z $CFLAGS; then
   1    CFLAGS='-O3 -g'
   2fi
   

   Prog_CC will only set the default CFLAGS if they’re not already set.

3. 
   theuni commented at 5:12 pm on November 24, 2014: contributor

   Sorry for the late response. Exactly what @gmaxwell said.
4. 
   theuni commented at 6:12 pm on November 24, 2014: contributor

   Note that it may be worth checking to see if there’s any major feature (or handful) enabled by -O3 that accounts for a majority of the performance boost. If so, we could just enable those and leave the -O alone. Obvious ones to try would include: -ftree-vectorize, -finline-functions
5. 
   sipa commented at 1:47 am on December 9, 2014: contributor

   See #146.
6. 
   dcousens commented at 2:48 am on April 16, 2015: contributor

   Since https://github.com/bitcoin/secp256k1/pull/146 was merged, close this?
7. gmaxwell closed this on Apr 16, 2015

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