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mr-simon
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 Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2004 4:06 am Post subject: nostrip - why shouldn't I use it? |
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What is the penalty for using FEATURES="nostrip"?
I'm finding that whenever I have a problem, I can solve it much more easily if I have symbols in my binaries.
What are the tradeoffs for having stripped binaries? Why does this happen by default? What am I missing if I add FEATURES="nostrip" to my make.conf? Performance? Disk space? Ram?
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seank
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| Well, it definitetly makes your binary larger thus taking up more disk space and I'm sure there is a slight slow-down of the binary's execution, but probably nothing too noticable (hopefully someone else comments on performance issues). If its helpful for you, I would do it. |
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AFAIK it's mostly binary size. Performance is indrectly impacted through binaries being larger, which means more space on disk > longer to load, and more space in RAM/cache, which may cause the odd cache miss.
I doubt this is really that significant if you're doing a lot of debugging and it's causing you problems. |
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mr-simon
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| Archangel1 wrote: | AFAIK it's mostly binary size. Performance is indrectly impacted through binaries being larger, which means more space on disk > longer to load, and more space in RAM/cache, which may cause the odd cache miss.
I doubt this is really that significant if you're doing a lot of debugging and it's causing you problems. |
Thanks, that's good to know. I usually run most of my machines at ~x86, which does make for the occasional crash/wierdness, and I like trying to figure out what's wrong. As long as I've got some spare RAM, I'll leave it switched on.
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