On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 15:19 +0100, Brian Budge wrote: > Yes, there's a large performance penalty. (1) most optimizations > can't be done because they foo with the debug data, thereby hurting > debuggability What? -g will not change what optimizations are run, or code generated. This is gcc policy. > (2) bloated code is slow code. > Not really. It won't be loaded into memory unless it's used. > Normally I expect my code to run about an order of magnitude slower with -g. > Then something is very very wrong.
