On Fri, 30 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I compile programs on my own, I usually run 'strip' on the > binaries when I'm finished. This greatly reduces the size of the files > but I wonder, does it affect performance/stability? My > /usr/local/lib/gimp/0.99/plug-ins was 16mb now it's 3. The man-page says > that strip removes symbols from the file, can anyone explain that in a > little more detail?
Strip will have no negative impact on your binaries unless you are debugging. Gimp has a stack trace option on a crash and that will not work once stripped. The data that is removed by strip is never even loaded into memory so it only results in disk space savings. Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
