<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I am using it, and I need it.<div><br></div><div>Does it run better/faster? I didn't test, but is it something to even ask, these days, architectures, … ?</div><div><br></div><div>Only if you turned everything off in 5.8.6 and later, as you'r doing it now, then probably my "-O2" default it is of no benefit at all :).</div><div><br></div><div>Generally, our "pitch" to "sell" super-modern-ultra-blast-mega-fast-superlative-OO and everything else you only dreamed about… And add "no CPU optimizations"… Imagine that.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div>On Jun 6, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Jay K wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">7) Do folks out there really use the Modula-3/gcc optimizer, and notice it produces code that runs much faster?</span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>