On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 08:20:48PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Let me clarify it down: it is only applies to HEAD, that is, unstable > branch, which can be inheretedly buggy. STABLE/RELEASE doesn't really > need this feature. This dismisses the following objections: I think it's more important in HEAD, but personally I would like to ship this way. It has the potential to vastly improve the quality of bug reports. That's not my call though. > 1. HDD size constrains: nobody really want to run unpatched HEAD on CF > or the like, since with HEAD you are expected to re-compile more than often. > > 2. / partition size: anybody running HEAD is expected to allow this > accomodate debugging kernel. > > 3. Additional slowdown: since it is adds up to 10 seconds (I bet that > even less on a modern system) who cares? This is HEAD, so that it is > expected to be sub-optimal performance-wise. I seriously doubt it's measurable. If it is, the loader is broken. :-) We're talking about reading a section header and doing a seek for each ELF section we don't care about (all the ones that bloat the file relative to the stripped version.) -- BrooksReceived on Wed Oct 20 2004 - 15:29:02 UTC
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