On 12/21/07, Andrew Pinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21 Dec 2007 16:02:38 -0800, Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Like it or not, the large size of debug information is a serious issue > > for many people. > > Link times are hurt by large size of debugging information. I have > many many complaints from some users of the PS3 toolchain that link > times are huge and from my investigation, found the size of the > debugging info contributed to most (if not all) of the increased link > times.
I forgot to mention the increase in debugging information about prologue and eplogue (made by RTH) between 4.0.2 and 4.1.1 made the link time increase a huge amount. This just an example of where increased debugging information hurts developmental time. Thanks, Andrew Pinski