Yes, it would. But this comes from a game developer, being one myself - we often need DEBUG builds that are relatively fast, because you develop your game mostl

Yes, it would. But this comes from a game developer, being one myself - we often need DEBUG builds that are relatively fast, because you develop your game mostly in such build (well not real DEBUG, but almost). For that reason, anything you can do help the compiler even if it's not optimizing is good. For example overriding operators such +, -, for say matrices/vectors might seem good idea (off course inlined, etc.) - but in DEBUG it creates such overhead, especially if it's nested. Instead use simple function call. Check Mike's page (cellperformance.com) - http://www.cellperformance.com/ http://www.cellperformance.com/