[Bro] Bro Binary without debugging symbols

Christian Kreibich christian at whoop.org
Fri Sep 30 12:21:49 PDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 17:35 -0700, nuno romano wrote:
> Well,the bro0.9 binary after being stripped down,
> without debugging symbols is now approximately 
> 1.8 Mb(1839856).Does this have any significant 
> positive impact in terms of performance of bro?

I may be simplifying the issue a bit, but as far as I know, no. The
symbol tables removed by strip are only a convenience for situations
like debugging and do not affect normal program execution.

Cheers,
Christian.
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