From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 22:55:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: do not compile git with debugging symbols by default
Message-ID: <20150122225517.GB31912@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150122183538.GA20085@peff.net>

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