From: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: Debugging information for DLL's 12 Jan 1999 04:48:41 -0800 Message-ID: <19990112174859.60315.cygnus.gnu-win32@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Glenn Spell Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com On 11-Jan-1999, Glenn Spell wrote: > Mumit Khan writes> > > Do note that stripping > > doesn't buy you anything other than disk space (the debugging info is > > never loaded into memory. > > Doesn't buy you anything? What do you mean? > > Here's what I know: > a) I'm not a programmer. > b) I believe what you say. > c) I know for a fact that a 5,xxxKB cygwin1.dll runs a lot > slower on Windows 95 than a 47xKB one does. > > Therefore, I figure that I must misunderstand what you're saying. Mumit Khan is saying that (c) is not correct. Why do you believe (c)? Did you actually run some benchmarks? -- Fergus Henderson | "Binaries may die WWW: | but source code lives forever" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- leaked Microsoft memo. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".