On Tue, 27 May 2003 09:08:54 +0200, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: >>>The poster also mentions that the binaries of the bincimap server are not >>>"stripped", and after doing so it should probably run faster, is that true? >>>How would I accomplish that? >>Firstly, I would focus on the "probably", which is perhaps a "maybe", >>which turns into a "I don't know!" ;-). > > Replying to myself here - the point on the thread that big binaries > (20MB++) on a system with little RAM may be slow is a good point.
Debugging info in binary doesn't affect memory usage at all, at least in the systems that I've checked. It's simply never read into memory. I don't know if there's any extra disk I/O because of that, but I doubt it. So only disadvantage with it is that it takes a bit more disk space.
