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nrf: enable link-time optimization 

Testing performed: installed freshly built .uf2 on a Particle Xenon.
Checked that circuitpython still starts.
Checked that the size of all .uf2 files for nrf builds are plausible.

Aside from memory savings, the performance of Python code (pystone)
increased by about +14%.

However, this adds about 12-16 seconds to each nrf build.

Timings & Sizes (build system: i5-3320M, -j5 parallelism on 4 threads):

Before:
$ make -j5 BOARD=particle_xenon
765004 bytes free in flash out of 1048576 bytes ( 1024.0 kb ).
232076 bytes free in ram for stack out of 245760 bytes ( 240.0 kb ).
68.54user 11.83system 0:34.34elapsed 234%CPU
pystones before: 570

After:
$ make -j5 BOARD=particle_xenon
804284 bytes free in flash out of 1048576 bytes ( 1024.0 kb ).
232072 bytes free in ram for stack out of 245760 bytes ( 240.0 kb ).
71.06user 11.77system 0:46.91elapsed 176%CPU
pystones after: 650

Timings on travis:

Before:
Build feather_nrf52840_express for pl took 55.79s and succeeded
Build feather_nrf52840_express for zh_Latn_pinyin took 3.18s and succeeded

After:
Build feather_nrf52840_express for pl took 62.72s and succeeded
Build feather_nrf52840_express for zh_Latn_pinyin took 19.10s

Closes: #1396
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Jeff Epler 2019-08-02 07:48:12 -05:00
parent 28b7cbfca6
commit 4bae29b925
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@ -95,8 +95,7 @@ ifeq ($(DEBUG), 1)
CFLAGS += -fno-inline -fno-ipa-sra
else
CFLAGS += -Os -DNDEBUG
# TODO: Test with -flto
### CFLAGS += -flto
CFLAGS += -flto -flto-partition=none
endif