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"-g" in makefiles

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Sun Mar 18 00:15:24 1990

To: rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 90 00:02:12 EST
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>

Someone should scan the source tree removing "-g" from Makefiles.  I
know gnu stuff uses this a lot.  Code built with "-g -O" on the RT is
less than 10% faster than code built with "-g".  Code built with "-O"
(or no flags) is twice as fast as code with "-g".

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