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authorJulian Taylor <jtaylor.debian@googlemail.com>2018-04-01 17:59:15 +0200
committerJulian Taylor <jtaylor.debian@googlemail.com>2018-04-01 18:00:06 +0200
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DOC: note that NDEBUG should be set when OPT should increase optimization
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@@ -132,6 +132,8 @@ Supplying additional compiler flags
Additional compiler flags can be supplied by setting the ``OPT``,
``FOPT`` (for Fortran), and ``CC`` environment variables.
+When providing options that should improve the performance of the code ensure
+that you also set ``-DNDEBUG`` so that debugging code is not executed.
Building with ATLAS support