Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 07:56:22 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: amungal AT vnet DOT ibm DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Question: STRIP.EXE


On 9 Dec 1995 amungal AT vnet DOT ibm DOT com wrote:

> What are the benefits of using STRIP before COFF2EXE?
> Certainly, you get a smaller sized EXE, but does it affect performance?

No, it doesn't (at least if disk space isn't a performance parameter for 
you).  The job of `strip' is to strip the executable of the debug info, 
which just makes debugging more difficult (you can't easily convert an 
address into a source filename and line number), but does nothing else.