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Trying Out The Ubuntu "-O3" Optimized Build For Greater Performance

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Trying Out The Ubuntu "-O3" Optimized Build For Greater Performance: Canonical engineers on Friday announced they are evaluating "-O3" compiler optimized package builds for Ubuntu Linux. As part of this evaluation of using GCC's -O3 compiler optimization level rather than -O2 when compiling Ubuntu packages, experimental Ubuntu desktop and server ISOs are available for testing with this change. Excitingly I ran some initial benchmarks over the weekend in looking at the performance difference.

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