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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
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- Subject: Re: strip
- Date: 22 Mar 96 22:38:50 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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- In <4iv28f$r84@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> fj4a013@rzaix42.uni-hamburg.de (Benito Gattuso) writes:
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- >If I strip a binary, does it become better or worse?
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- Only shorter and less debuggable.
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- >I've heard, one mussn't strip the emacs binary,
- >because its performance would become worse.
- >Is that so really?
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- This is, probably, an urban legend. I'm sure the guys from gnu.emacs.help
- will correct me if I'm wrong :-)
-
- Dan
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