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Why are you using -O2 instead of -O3?



-O2 seems to be the most commonly used optimization level. That's what most of the distro software and the kernel etc uses. In the past except for maybe a handful things, O3 was an overkill. (O3/Ofast remind me of my Gentoo days! :)


Or -Ofast




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