Does -traditional skip some optimizations?

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From: Anthony Lapadula
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 1990 18:37

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We seem to have discovered that code compiled with "-traditional -O"
will (sometimes?) execute slower than code compiled with just "-O".

Are we seeing things, or are there some restrictions that the K&R semantics
impose that were removed by the standard?

-- Anthony (uunet!unhd!al, al@cs.unh.edu) Lapadula

// For some time, I've wondered what the software equivalent of
// RISC could be.  -- Dick Dunn, comp.misc

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