Scott McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does adding debugging information make an executable run through its
> code paths slower, or will there be no significant difference? How about
> its memory footprint...hideously bloated, or only marginally different?
> I'm currently rebuilding my system, and debating whether I should strip
> the binaries,
Debugging symbols have no effect at all on the performance. They do
not get loaded (except from debuggers, of course) so also the memory
consumption does not change. It is alsways a stupid idea to strip
binaries.
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