Re: [squid-users] size of squid binary

Hello,

if accept loosing debug symbols and get stripped binary, can we say
that stripped binary of squid will perform better?
Thanks.

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Eda FLORAT
2011/1/13 Henrik Nordström <henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net>:
> mån 2010-12-27 klockan 11:00 -0600 skrev Orestes Leal R.:
>> I've built squid 3.1.10 on openbsd4.6 sucessfuly
>> but my squid binary it's 40M of size, then I do a:
>
>> it's this size by default normal?
>
> Yes.
>
>> squid gets a debug build by default?
>
> Yes, just as is done for virtually any Open Source software you can
> find.
>
> The memory usage is just the stripped size and disk space is cheap
> compared to the alternative.  Without the debug info you can't analyze
> any crashes in a meaningful way.
>
> I kind of like the way this is handled in Fedora and perhaps other
> distributios as well, where packaged binaries is packaged with debug
> info kept separately from the binary and installed when needed. Gives
> the best of both.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
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