On Thursday 2009-04-23 14:51, Bob Rossi wrote: > >>> What's the advantage over just installing binaries into $(bindir) >>> without stripping them? **Non-brain-damaged** systems won't >>> load them from the file anyway for normal execution.
[emphasis added by me] >On mingw/msys the executables with debug grow to be huge (10x the size). >Before stripping, my bin dir is 920 megs. After stripping it's 72 megs. >The mere size of the executables cause **windows** to load them rather slow. >If you have to start a program many times, as I do, it's noticable. But yeah, even if this seems like a case of brain-damage, this is _the_ argument for me to support having this make target. >I don't debug often, but, if I need to, I'd rather not do an entirely >new build, so I stick with the bloated debug build.
