Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!mathisen From: mathisen@dali.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: To strip, or not to strip... Message-ID: <2963@dali> Date: 22 Nov 90 05:43:22 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Montana State University, Dept. of Computer Science, Bozeman MT 59717 Lines: 17 In article morse@quark.mpr.ca (Daryl Morse) writes: >1. Size of executable *is* significantly smaller. (BTW, I'm running > MIPS-based machine.) > > unstripped dxterm - 3244 > stripped dxterm - 3244 > >TSIZE was also unchanged. Am I missing something here? Not being a This makes perfect sense... strip(1) only removes symbol table information left behind by the compiler and linker. The stripped executable is in all other respects indentical to the unstripped one, thus no memory/performance gain. Of course, it's much harder to debug w/o the symbol info, but that's a different problem.