Suspicious sizes by different C compilers

['Martin Pool']

On 19 Mar 2002, "Granzow, Doug (NCI)" <granzowd at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
> >On gcc, rsync builds by default with debug symbols included.  If you
> >strip both executables, they should end up about the same size.
> 
> 
> How do you "strip" an executable?  

Use "make install-strip", or see the manual for your system's "strip"
command. 

  # strip /usr/bin/rsync

> Would doing this reduce the amount of memory rsync uses or improve
> its performance?

No, having debug symbols should not make a significant difference with
gcc on modern systems, as far as I know.  The pages containing debug
symbols will not be loaded into memory until they're touched. 

-- 
Martin