On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:47:11PM +0100, RedShift wrote: > >You may also stripe nearly all of your libraries, for example: > > > ># ls -lhS /usr/lib/libcrypto*a > >-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 11.7M Mar 22 13:53 /usr/lib/libcrypto_pic.a > >-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 11.6M Mar 22 13:53 /usr/lib/libcrypto_p.a > >-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 11.5M Mar 22 13:53 /usr/lib/libcrypto.a > ># strip -s /usr/lib/libcrypto*a > ># ls -lhS /usr/lib/libcrypto*a > >-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 909K Mar 22 13:53 /usr/lib/libcrypto_pic.a > >-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 865K Mar 22 13:53 /usr/lib/libcrypto_p.a > >-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 835K Mar 22 13:53 /usr/lib/libcrypto.a > Interesting, does this stripping also have a speed increase during usage?
No. Stripping only saves disk space. Debugging symbols are not loaded into RAM unless you run gdb. -- stefan http://stsp.in-berlin.de PGP Key: 0xF59D25F0
