Re: [PATCH] Makefile: do not compile git with debugging symbols by default

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On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 01:35:38PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 06:36:41PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> 
> > > Yes, main point is size of executable.
> > 
> > The Git executable is a few megabytes, i.e. 0.001% the size of a really
> > small hard disk. The benefit seems really negligible to me.
> 
> I don't know the layout of the symbols with respect to the code, or
> whether the stripped version might reduce memory pressure. So in theory
> it could have a performance impact.

It doesn't. Debugging info is in a part of the file that is not mapped
in memory, and in a part that can be removed without affecting the rest
of the file, so it's more or less at the end.

Mike
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