From: khan@xraylith.wisc.edu (Mumit Khan) Subject: Re: Debugging information for DLL's 12 Jan 1999 00:33:40 -0800 Message-ID: <199901112315.RAA12461.cygnus.gnu-win32@hp2.xraylith.wisc.edu> References: <199901111413.GAA10624@shell4.ba.best.com> To: glenn@gs.fay.nc.us (Glenn Spell) Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Glenn Spell writes: > > Doesn't buy you anything? What do you mean? > I should've prefixed that with "In theory ..." ;-) > Here's what I know: > b) I believe what you say. Don't. Check it first. > c) I know for a fact that a 5,xxxKB cygwin1.dll runs a lot > slower on Windows 95 than a 47xKB one does. On most systems, the debug info is not loaded by the loader, and you basically spend no extra time (other than perhaps some paging penalty due to a larger executable) when you have debug info; I can imagine executables running a bit slower on Windows95 which has a lousy VM (virtual memory), but on NT, it should be barely noticable. > Therefore, I figure that I must misunderstand what you're saying. It's more that theory and practice don't quite agree here than any misunderstanding. Regards, Mumit - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".