On 6 April 2011 13:13, vikramsp wrote: > > hello there... i am trying my hands on gcc optimisations options. > i tried e.g. -finline-functions, -funroll-loops and the likes but none > worked for me Are you also using -O ? As documented in the manual "Most optimizations are only enabled if an -O level is set on the command line. Otherwise they are disabled, even if individual optimization flags are specified. " http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.6.0/gcc/Optimize-Options.html