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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: relative value of stripping symbols
Message-ID: <10082@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 20 Apr 89 22:06:35 GMT
References: <17615@cisunx.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <17615@cisunx.UUCP> jcbst3@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (James C. Benz) writes:
>If the program is well written and all other things being equal, will the
>program take longer to load and will it run slower with the symbols in?  

The symbols aren't loaded at all, they're just tacked onto the load file.
If you have the disk space, there is no reason not to retain the symbols.