On Sun, 11 Mar 2018, Doug McIlroy wrote:
The variance in running times pretty well swamped the difference between -ms padded and unpadded. The difference was at most a few percent.
I tried some hypothetic similar tests and got similar results. Even on a low power, slowish (firewall) CPU. Mind you, lots faster than a PDP-11.
With Peter preferring to distribute -mom unstripped, it's hard to find an argument for default stripping.
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