Article 6MGAC Proposal Raised To Deprecate "-Ofast" For The LLVM/Clang Compiler

Proposal Raised To Deprecate "-Ofast" For The LLVM/Clang Compiler

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Some that crave the absolute best possible performance sometimes build their software with the "-Ofast" optimization level that is a step above "-O3" but comes with the risk of potentially unsafe math. LLVM developers are now weighing whether to deprecate -Ofast to either remove it or have it just be an alias for the -O3 optimizations...
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