> What is better? And why? In the most general sense, elf stripping involves ridding them of certain parts that are not critical to day-to-day functioning, but can improve their observability.
You can learn more about the concept as it applied in Solaris from the strip(1) man page and from the blogs of a linker alien: http://blogs.sun.com/ali/entry/which_solaris_files_are_stripped http://blogs.sun.com/ali/entry/what_is_sunw_ldynsym To be sure, the concept is not unique to Solaris: http://www.amazon.com/Those-Who-Hunt-Elves-Stripping/dp/B00005UW7C -Artem.
