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Apple's default optimization level is also for size, not speed, and that ends up being faster there as well. They ran an entire session a couple of years ago at WWDC, explaining how and why -Os ends up being a superior solution--basically, you blow out the cache less, which ends up mattering far more than forcing the processor to do as much as possible on every cycle.


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