There is a performance penalty with -g: it makes the raising of exceptions slower (due to recording of backtraces). I think that may be the only difference at present, though I'm not completely sure.
Mark On 13 March 2016 at 19:16, Ivan Gotovchits <[email protected]> wrote: > It looks like, that currently the `-g` option has no performance cost at all > (correct me if I’m wrong). Presumably, there is some increase in the package > size, but who cares. With these premises, I think it would be a good policy > to distribute packages with `-g` flag enabled. > >> On Mar 12, 2016, at 4:35 PM, Daniel Bünzli <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I'd like to know what the consensus is about distributing packages that >> always compile in debug mode. It seems that some persons do want to have >> debug always enabled [1,2], but the discussion is not clear cut [1]. >> >> By default all my packages are released with -g disabled. It seems easy >> enough to have an opam switch (even the official one) that automatically >> enables the flag. >> >> So I think OCaml's opam repository should have a policy here. The answer >> should also take system package managers into account since those pull >> directly from the tarballs (if this document [3] is still in use for debian >> it seems they do require compilation with debug mode). >> >> Personally I don't have an opinion about it, I'm rather seeking an answer >> here. >> >> Best, >> >> Daniel >> >> [1] http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=6728 >> [2] http://rgrinberg.com/blog/2016/02/26/opam-package-checklist/ >> [3] >> http://pkg-ocaml-maint.alioth.debian.org/ocaml_packaging_policy.html/c305.html#AEN307 >> >> >> >> -- >> Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: >> https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list >> Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners >> Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs > > > -- > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: > https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs _______________________________________________ Platform mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/platform
