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Date: Sat Aug 25 10:41:01 2001
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On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 10:25:05AM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
> No particular objections. Debug should be disabled by default though, so I'm
> not sure about performance gains. And about --enable-final, the configure
> script says that creates smaller executables, which I assumed would come at
> the expense of performance (i.e. optimize for size). Anyone know more? Achim?
as a random guess, I'd say the final thing is just stripping the binaries. Not
actually changing any code. You can usually drop the size of an executable by
half or more by stripping it.
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