Due to upstream bugs and/or packaging mistakes some Debian packages like Abiword [1] or Wireshark [2] are currently unintentionally built without any compiler optimization [3].
This results in programs being both significantely bigger and significantely slower than they should be. It would IMHO be good if maintainers would sometimes check whether their packages are actually built with compiler optimization enabled. This does not apply to the cases where maintainers intentionally build packages without compiler optimization (to work around compiler or application bugs). TIA Adrian BTW: Please Cc me on replies since I'm not subscribed to debian-devel. [1] http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9466 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/439298 [3] no -Os/-O2/-O3 is given to the compiler -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]