Re: mk.conf

On 23/02/2026 15.07, Mouse wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> anything interesting to be set in mk.conf
>>> on a VAX?
> 
>>> Switching off CC optimizer?
> 
>> Why would you switch optimization off?
> 
> I didn't write that suggestion, but two possible reasons come to mind
> immediately:

:-)

> (1) So a build completes in a week instead of a month?

Fair enough. However, I have no idea how much faster the compiles will 
be with optimization turned off.

> (2) So the compiler isn't _quite_ so much of a RAM pig?  (I don't know
> whether it would actually have that effect, but it seems plausible to
> me.)

I guess it will have some impact, but I don't know how much. Similar to 
the time question. I get the general feeling that it's a pig no matter 
how you run it.

The third reason would be the old one about those files that crashed the 
compiler in the past, when optimization was on (or was it that the 
resulting code didn't work? Now I don't remember...).

But I think for both memory and time aspects, it makes more sense to let 
the compiler work longer, and get something that runs faster and with 
less resources. After all, for most binaries, you compile them once, but 
you run them many times.

   Johnny