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Nope, I'm not sure about it. I remember when I was using Gentoo about 10 years ago, this was the common reason given for using -O2 instead of -O3 in your build flags, and I'm just speaking from that memory.



Yeah there’s lots of cargo culting FUD like that that happens (see other posters in this thread that claim that glibc is a more stable allocator )




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