Thank you. I had figured that the debugging information was interleaved with the instructions and such, thus causing cache misses left and right (same code, slower execution), but then it occurred to me that the notion was borderline retarded. Tommy McDaniel >> I have a quick question: does adding debugging information (with -g >> and/or friends) make the generated code slower? Thank you. > >No. > >The -g options do not affect the generated code. > >Ian _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com