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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html