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diff --git a/src/settings.js b/src/settings.js
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+++ b/src/settings.js
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@
// emcc -s OPTION1=VALUE1 -s OPTION2=VALUE2 [..other stuff..]
//
// See https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki/Code-Generation-Modes/
+//
+// Note that the values here are the defaults in -O0, that is, unoptimized
+// mode. See apply_opt_level in tools/shared.py for how -O1,2,3 affect these
+// flags.
+//
// Tuning
var QUANTUM_SIZE = 4; // This is the size of an individual field in a structure. 1 would
@@ -131,6 +136,16 @@ var OUTLINING_LIMIT = 0; // A function size above which we try to automatically
// large functions (JS engines often compile them very slowly,
// compile them with lower optimizations, or do not optimize them
// at all). If 0, we do not perform outlining at all.
+ // To see which funcs are large, you can inspect the source
+ // in a debug build (-g2 or -g for example), and can run
+ // tools/find_bigfuncs.py on that to get a sorted list by size.
+ // Another possibility is to look in the web console in firefox,
+ // which will note slowly-compiling functions.
+ // You will probably want to experiment with various values to
+ // see the impact on compilation time, code size and runtime
+ // throughput. It is hard to say what values to start testing
+ // with, but something around 20,000 to 100,000 might make sense.
+ // (The unit size is number of AST nodes.)
// Generated code debugging options
var SAFE_HEAP = 0; // Check each write to the heap, for example, this will give a clear
@@ -380,9 +395,7 @@ var HEADLESS = 0; // If 1, will include shim code that tries to 'fake' a browser
var BENCHMARK = 0; // If 1, will just time how long main() takes to execute, and not
// print out anything at all whatsoever. This is useful for benchmarking.
-var ASM_JS = 0; // If 1, generate code in asm.js format. XXX This is highly experimental,
- // and will not work on most codebases yet. It is NOT recommended that you
- // try this yet.
+var ASM_JS = 0; // If 1, generate code in asm.js format.
var PGO = 0; // Enables profile-guided optimization in the form of runtime checks for
// which functions are actually called. Emits a list during shutdown that you