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Re: Results with glibc-2.2.92
- From: Jeff Chua <jchua at fedex dot com>
- To: Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>
- Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>, GNU libc <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 01:13:14 +0800 (SGT)
- Subject: Re: Results with glibc-2.2.92
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On large C++ programs, say 9 MB unstripped, the difference between
> -g and --remove-unneeded can be as much as 3 MB. It's astounding.
strip /lib/libc-2.2.5.so
before 10146603
after 1157816
That's 10MB! 10MB on a 18MB ramdisk serving as a bootdisk is a lot of
savings.
Thanks,
Jeff.