On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 03:11:58PM +0200, Evan Penner wrote:
> >> I would personally prefer that most packages come with debugging enabled
> >> by
> >> default. Surely, there will be a performance cost, but speed is not
> >> crucial in
> >> most cases.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >
> > There's no performance impact, just disk space and bandwidth.
> >
>
> Bandwidth is probably the main problem, although anyone who wants to debug
> will probably be fine with that.
I think you guys misunderstood me. The biggest problem IMHO with building debug
versions locally is not compiling itself, but setting up the environment. So, I
meant that packages come with debugging enabled (compiled with gcc -O0 -g and
perhaps ./configure options). This way, there will be not many new packages.
Of course, this is not a good idea for things like FF/Gnome/KDE because of a
slow-down, but a performance penalty for smaller programs like vim, links,
XFCE4 etc. will not be noticeable (at least I don't see any for a self-compiled
xfce4 desktop on a single-core Intel Atom based netbook).
Cheers,
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Leonid Isaev
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