A new question has been posted to the Knowledgebase: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-compilation-flags ---------------------------------------------------------------------- how come mariadb is compiled on linux 64 bit with -O2 rather than -O3? mysql is compiled with -O3. does it make any difference? thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks. -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org