Op vrijdag 4 mei 2018 21:18:09 CEST schreef Eric Siegerman: > Is there any particular reason to avoid using a > CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug build of GnuCash in production? > > The reason *to* do that, of course, is to have the debugging > symbols available in case of need. > > (This is independent of the choice of which git commit to build > *from*; those pros-and-cons I'm well familiar with...) > > This is on Linux, in case that's relevant. > A debug build will tell the compiler to avoid several optimizations.
So a debug build will have a performance penalty. How bad it is depends on the code and the performance of your hardware. Additionally a debug build will produce larger binaries and consume more memory. Again whether that's problem depends mostly on your hardware. Regards, Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
