To strip, or not to strip...

[Jaye Mathisen]

In article <MORSE.90Nov20120758 at quark.mpr.ca> morse at quark.mpr.ca (Daryl Morse) writes:
>1. Size of executable *is* significantly smaller. (BTW, I'm running
>   MIPS-based machine.)
>
>	unstripped dxterm - 3244
>	stripped   dxterm - 3244
>
>TSIZE was also unchanged. Am I missing something here? Not being a




This makes perfect sense...  strip(1) only removes symbol table information
left behind by the compiler and linker.  The stripped executable is in all
other respects indentical to the unstripped one, thus no memory/performance
gain.  Of course, it's much harder to debug w/o the symbol info, but
that's a different problem.