On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 03:54:25PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > FYI, the most recent CVS snapshots of GDB can read zlib-compressed > > debug info. If someone gets around to an objcopy patch to create it, > > then we can change debhelper to use it... > > > > What's the runtime cost? > Usually things get slower with such kind of changes.
Seems roughly null, given some RAM to spare; zlib is a bit cheaper than the extra disk IO on many modern systems. Mike is right that this won't affect archive size much, though. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
