On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:04:11AM +0100, John Haxby wrote: > What makes you think that removing a part of the file that isn't loaded > (the symbol table) is actually going to make a program run faster? Yes, it is loaded, but unused symbols (those removed by strip) are not referenced at runtime. Most likely, it will not run faster, but it will certainly load faster, since the executable file will be smaller. It should also produce a smaller memory footprint. Disclaimer: Note that this is just my thoughts and I have no hard evidence that this is so. Cheers, -- Javier Gostling D. <jgd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
