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by looofooo0 462 days ago
True that, I mean it is still interesting, that if you have a narrow task, you might achieve some significant speed up from rebuilding them. But this is a very niche application.
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true, i saw a thread recently on reddit where guy hand-tuned compilation flags and did pgo profiling for a video encoder app that he uses on video encode farm.

In his case, even a gain of ~20% was significant. It calculated into extra bandwidth to encode a few thousand more video files per year.