This is important. The size of the stripped binaries should be compared. ELF binaries contain both link-time sections and loadable segments, and the longer nam

This is important. The size of the stripped binaries should be compared. ELF binaries contain both link-time sections and loadable segments, and the longer name of C++ symbols only affects disk space (for both the link-time symbol table and for debug information). The size of the runtime-loadable segments is really the only thing of interest, and stripping the binaries gives you a truer indication of this.