"Diogo F. S. Ramos" <diogo...@gmail.com> writes: > Package: racket > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > When a racket binary is stripped from its debugging info, it's not > possible to have a proper report from the `profile' collection on > x86_64 [1]. > > While the binary size grows with the debug information, I find the > statistical profiler invaluable. > > [1] http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2012-November/054905.html
I asked Diogo to report this as a bug because I think some discussion is needed - About the size increase, on amd64 the racket binary is currently 3.3M. Diogo reported unstripped size of 10M. That's a large increase, but currently the combination of racket-common and racket is about 190M, so it would be about a 5% increase overall. - I'm a bit worried about the increase in startup time for racket. If somebody could do some experiments, that would be great. - I think we could easily add a seperate package of debugging symbols using http://wiki.debian.org/DebugPackage ; I'm somewhat skeptical that the racket profiler could use these symbols. Again some information gathering would be helpful. I'm guessing somebody on the racket developer's list could answer that. - finally, there is the option of yet another binary package with unstripped binaries. I guess it could use different names. I'm not sure if this is a good idea (or somehow a violation of Debian policy). d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
