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> Hilarious that they have symbols stripped, but still outclassed. Debug symbols have 0 runtime penalty, just storage. They're just another section of the bina
by AceJohnny2 2y ago
> Hilarious that they have symbols stripped, but still outclassed.
Debug symbols have 0 runtime penalty, just storage. They're just another section of the binary, referenced by debuggers, and which the loader skips.
In any case, all distros break out the symbols into separate files so that they can have their (storage) cake and (debug) eat it too.
- taeric 2y agoRight, I meant the humor to be that folks to not use debug flags, with my naive presumption that they did this as an optimization, only for that not to really help.