Update benchmark results in README.md
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@@ -143,21 +143,19 @@ Advice to distributors
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A note on compiler flags: Mosh is security-sensitive code. When making
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automated builds for a binary package, we recommend passing the option
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`--enable-compile-warnings=error` to ./configure. On GNU/Linux with
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gcc and a system boost, the package should compile cleanly with
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-Werror. Please report a bug if it doesn't.
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g++ or clang++, the package should compile cleanly with
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`-Werror`. Please report a bug if it doesn't.
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Mosh ships with a default optimization setting of `-O2`. Some
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distributors have asked about changing this to `-Os` (which causes a
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compiler to prefer space optimizations to time optimization). We have
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benchmarked mosh with g++ 4.6 and clang++ 2.9 to see if `-Os` might be
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preferable. In both cases, -Os did produce a smaller binary (by up to
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40%, saving a few hundred kilobytes), but at a considerable cost to
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mosh's performance -- about 28-31% for both compilers, or similar to a
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typical net benefit from enabling optimization. While Mosh is not
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especially CPU intensive and mostly sits idle when the user is not
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typing, our recommendation to distributors would be to stay with the
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default of `-O2` unless saving space on disk is particularly
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important.
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benchmarked with the included `src/examples/benchmark` program to test
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this. The results are that `-O2` is 40% faster than `-Os` with g++ 4.6
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on GNU/Linux, and 16% faster than `-Os` with clang++ 3.1 on Mac OS
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X. In both cases, `-Os` did produce a smaller binary (by up to 40%,
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saving almost 200 kilobytes on disk). While Mosh is not especially CPU
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intensive and mostly sits idle when the user is not typing, we think
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the results suggest that `-O2` (the default) is preferable.
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More info
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