diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index f0395d69f8..787fb1b07d 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ endif()
 # Command line options
 #===============================================================================
 
-option(openmp   "Enable shared-memory parallelism with OpenMP"   OFF)
+option(openmp   "Enable shared-memory parallelism with OpenMP"   ON)
 option(profile  "Compile with profiling flags"                   OFF)
 option(debug    "Compile with debug flags"                       OFF)
-option(optimize "Turn on all compiler optimization flags"        OFF)
+option(optimize "Turn on all compiler optimization flags"        ON)
 option(coverage "Compile with coverage analysis flags"           OFF)
 option(mpif08   "Use Fortran 2008 MPI interface"                 OFF)