Results with glibc-2.2.92

Jeff Chua jchua@fedex.com
Fri Aug 30 10:14:00 GMT 2002


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.




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