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- From: psmith@lemming.wellfleet.com (Paul D. Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.questions,gnu.emacs.help,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: strip
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 11:26:24 -0500
- Organization: Bay Networks, Inc. / Billerica, MA
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- In-reply-to: Richard Pieri's message of 25 Mar 1996 10:23:35 -0500
- To: Richard Pieri <ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu>
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- %% Regarding Re: strip;
- %% Richard Pieri <ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu> writes:
-
- >>> I've heard, one mussn't strip the emacs binary, because its
- >>> performance would become worse. Is that so really?
-
- DP> This is, probably, an urban legend. I'm sure the guys from
- DP> gnu.emacs.help will correct me if I'm wrong :-)
-
- rp> Not an urban legend at all. If you strip the dumped emacs
- rp> binary it wil not show degraded performance, it will not run at
- rp> all! If you wish to strip emacs you need to halt the build when
- rp> temacs is called to dump the emacs binary, strip temacs, and
- rp> resume the build.
-
- Sorry, but that's wrong. The only system Emacs 19 can't be stripped on
- is AIX (according to the MACHINES file, and my tests as of Emacs
- 19.28--haven't tried stripping AIX emacs since then).
-
- I regularly strip Emacs 19.xx on SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux, built
- without X, with Athena, and with Motif. It always works and runs fine,
- I never have a problem due to stripping.
-
- Certainly the idea that stripping will degrade performance strikes me as
- half-baked; can anyone come up with a rationale for that? The only one
- I can think of is if you're running both stripped and unstripped
- versions on the same system, then you won't get as much memory sharing
- as you would otherwise.
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