[Vm-dev] [OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm] Solaris (#479)

[K K Subbu]

On 06/04/20 11:42 AM, Tobias Pape wrote:
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>> On 06.04.2020, at 08:00, K K Subbu<kksubbu.ml at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>..I would expect alpha and possibly beta to use debug but RC or release versions to optimize aggressively for speed. Debug builds may be instrumented for bounds check, initialized alloc, leak checks, overflow checks etc. These could slow down squeak vm.
> That_really_  depends. And actually, why should writing debug info into the binary slow things down?
> It at most increases the size of the binary. Optimization on GCC/clang is only handled via the -O?? flag.

It is not just debug info. Read my reasons carefully - debug options may 
insert code for bounds check, initialize malloc memory etc.

> TL;DR: there is really no need to remove '-g' on gcc/clang, even in release builds.

It would be easy to check if -g has an impact on performance. Just 
generate a bintray build with just "-O3" and we can run a quick 
benchmark to check if there is any significant impact on the 
performance. This will give us hard data to make a decision. If there is 
no impact, then your may revert to status quo.

Regards .. Subbu