Interactions

This option is most effective when you use it to compile the whole program, and with profile feedback. Profiling reveals the most and least used parts of the code and building directs the optimizer to focus its effort accordingly. This is particularly important with large applications where optimal placement of code performed at link time can reduce instruction cache misses. Typically, this compiles as follows:

example% cc -o progt -xO5 -xprofile=collect:prog file.c
example% progt
example% cc -o prog -xO5 -xprofile=use:prog -xlinkopt file.c

For details on using profile feedback, see A.2.165 -xprofile=p.