relative value of stripping symbols

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <17615 at cisunx.UUCP> jcbst3 at 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.