Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Stripping _objc.so

[Just v. R. <ju...@le...>]

bb...@ma... wrote:

> For the installer package-- for the version that goes in
> site-packages-- I don't think stripping makes a huge difference.  

(Btw. is "python setup.py install" equivalent to what the installer
does?)

> It
> will not significantly impact load times as the whole file is memory
> mapped and the symbol table is basically just a big blob near the
> end. Nor will it affect runtime performance unless your system is
> incredibly tight on RAM.
> 
> The project builder copy files phases could be augmented to do the
> strip, as well.
> 
> Not having the symbols does make debugging more difficult in that gdb
> will be unable to fully resolve symbols, line numbers, etc...

I'm pretty sure it affects Console.app crash reports as well.

Just