On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 07:38:27PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 01:28:43AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > Only if you want to squeeze the last bit of performance out of > > _debugging_ functionality. > > > > You avoid all the pain if you simply don't use debugging functionality > > on production systems. > > I think you're mixing up profiling and debugging. The former is > extremely valuable under production systems.
profiling = debugging of performance problems My words were perhaps a bit sloppy, but profiling isn't part of normal operation and if people use a separate kernel for such purposes we don't need infrastructure for reducing performance penalties of enabled debug options. > Dave cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/