[Buildroot] [pull request] Pull request for branch for-2011.08/debugging-improvements
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Thu Jul 14 13:43:47 UTC 2011
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
>> Next to the size impact (which I agree is not a big problem) there's
>> also potentially a build time impact. Did you test this?
Thomas> Here is the result of a fairly big build for ARM (X.org, Gtk2, WebKit,
Thomas> Midori), on a fairly big machine (quad-core, 12 GB of RAM), build was
Thomas> done with BR2_JLEVEL=16, and the build does not include a toolchain (I
Thomas> used an existing internal toolchain).
Thanks!
Thomas> Without debugging symbols
Thomas> =========================
Thomas> * Size of output directory: 3.4 GB
Thomas> * Size of staging directory: 445 MB
Thomas> With debugging symbols
Thomas> ======================
Thomas> * Size of output directory: 9.0 GB
Thomas> * Size of staging directory: 2.0 GB
Thomas> So, I'd say we should drop my patch 2/4.
Yeah, this is a bit too much.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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