Re: Question about 'strip'
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998 mike@bcinternet.com wrote:
> When I compile programs on my own, I usually run 'strip' on the
> binaries when I'm finished. This greatly reduces the size of the files
> but I wonder, does it affect performance/stability? My
> /usr/local/lib/gimp/0.99/plug-ins was 16mb now it's 3. The man-page says
> that strip removes symbols from the file, can anyone explain that in a
> little more detail?
Strip will have no negative impact on your binaries unless you are
debugging. Gimp has a stack trace option on a crash and that will not work
once stripped.
The data that is removed by strip is never even loaded into memory so it
only results in disk space savings.
Jason
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