[H-GEN] GCC problem

[Jason Henry Parker]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Jason Henry Parker <jasonp at uq.net.au>)

Craig Eldershaw <celdersh at parc.xerox.com> writes:

[stripping executables to make 'em smaller]
> Which will reduce disk space consumption, but (I'm lead to believe)
> won't effect memory consumption in normal use (ie. symbols aren't
> loaded).  Might slightly speed load time (as I guess the disk still has
> to be thrashed through).

Stripping isn't to be undervalued, though.  I remember getting a whole
order of magnitude improvement after I compiled my own ghostscript by
stripping it.  (At the time I was *sure* the compiled binary was 15MB,
but these days I'm inclined to think it was merely 1.5MB.)

The original poster may also want to investigate using (or not using)
the various -O options to gcc.

jason

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