-O -g

[Stan Shebs]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:

>Jim Kingdon wrote:
>
>>The kind of thing which you describe has always been typical of what
>>happens with -O and -g.
>>
>
>Why bother with -O?  Can't speak for other platforms, but compiling
>under Windows using VS 2003, I don't observe any slowdown running a
>debug only version of the Tk client.  This is on a 866 MHz Pentium III.
>I think this indicates that Tk is a super-pig super-bottleneck.
>
Pig perhaps, but bottleneck no. Xconq's critical paths don't involve
tcl's own code; that was a key criterion for adopting tcl. Check out
the map drawing code in any of the GUIs to see where the real
optimization struggle is going on.

Stan