i'm just compiling VegaStrike from CVS and am wondering what the "--enable-release" parameter exactly does?
And are there any general optimization parameter (non platform/etc related) to use?
Or any other parameters known to enhance the speed of the game (no pun intended ).
configure.in wrote:AC_ARG_ENABLE(release, AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-release], [Produce an executable with optimizations]), [VS_CXXFLAGS="${VS_CXXFLAGS} -O2 -ffast-math"])
So in other words it just adds -O2 -ffast-math to the optimization flags making it go faster. The only reason not to have those is when you are debugging. It sometimes makes the code go in strange places or skip lines.
you can only get negligible speed increases using these flags (although I find it enough to make it worthwhile for the playable binary (this only gets made infrequently....as I test more often then I play )
The best increase comes from rerouting all command line output to a file instead of the console.....especially since I use gterm.....which is *so* slow at rendering stuff (although it significantly faster in fedora core 2 than it was in rh9 )....
dandandaman wrote:you can only get negligible speed increases using these flags (although I find it enough to make it worthwhile for the playable binary (this only gets made infrequently....as I test more often then I play )
Ok, i will just stick with this parameters.
Thanks.
The best increase comes from rerouting all command line output to a file instead of the console.....especially since I use gterm.....which is *so* slow at rendering stuff (although it significantly faster in fedora core 2 than it was in rh9 )....
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