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Re: FW: Huge binaries


"Hite, Christopher" <Christopher.Hite@partner.commerzbank.com> writes:

> If I lock the process into memory is does it lock the debug info into
> memory too?

No.

> Perhaps I can run a stripped binary in production and then analize it's
> cores with the unstripped version.  Will that work?

Yes.

But be aware that the debug info costs you nothing at runtime.  The only
cost is the disk space that it occupies and the bandwidth required to
transmit the extra data when copying the binary between machines.

Ian


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