Re: strange NSException code

[Adrian Robert]

On Dec 2, 2005, at 7:14 AM, Helge Hess wrote:

> On 2. Dez 2005, at 03:24 Uhr, Andrew Ruder wrote:
> > I think that in this day and age, the extra space due to debugging
> > symbols is fairly neglible,
>
> It isn't neglible, its a major overhead:
> ---snip---
> helge@move:/usr/local/lib$ ls -hla libNGObjWeb_d.so.4.5.216
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 helge dev 5.9M Nov 29 21:22 libNGObjWeb_d.so.4.5.216
> helge@move:/usr/local/lib$ strip libNGObjWeb_d.so.4.5.216
> helge@move:/usr/local/lib$ ls -hla libNGObjWeb_d.so.4.5.216
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 helge dev 2.2M Dec  2 13:09 libNGObjWeb_d.so.4.5.216
> ---snap--

Compared to a lot of other libraries and apps out there, 3.7 MB of  
RAM seems small, even though percentagewise here it's more than  
doubling.  Judging by observed memory footprints of gnustep apps,  
several times more is taken up at runtime (by allocations or whatever  
else) anyway, though perhaps loading is a little slower the first  
time the .so goes into shared space.  I always build gnustep "make - 
OPTFLAG='-g -O2'", and also once I started delivering Emacs.app with  
full debug symbols I started getting a lot more helpful bug reports.