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Why stage1-gcc is not compiled with optimization?

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When I was building GCC, I found out that stage1-gcc is not compiled with optimization (such as -O2). So the compilation of stage2 is very slow. Is this intended or not? If not, did I made some mistakes in configure options and caused this?

posted Feb 22, 2017 by anonymous

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