build: disable unsafe optimizations
Compile at -O2 and disable optimizations that trigger gcc bugs. Some people still reported mksnapshot crashes after commit b40f813b ("build: fix spurious mksnapshot crashes for good" - so much for that). Average performance of the -O2 binary is on par with the -O3 binary. Variance on the http_simple bytes/8 benchmark appears to be slightly greater but small enough that the possibly of it being noise cannot be excluded. The new binary very slightly but consistently outperforms the -O3 binary (by about 0.5%) on the mostly CPU-bound bytes/102400 benchmark. That could be an artifact of the system I benchmarked it on, a Core 2 Duo with a puny 32 kB of L1 instruction cache. The smaller binary seems to play nicer with the cache.
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