Re: Issue 1905 in lilypond: Add note to CG 9.3 'Compiling reg tests' to add --disable-optimising when using autogen.sh or configure

[Neil Puttock]

On 19 September 2011 16:16, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> The debug symbols should not affect code speed, and they are present in
> the unoptimized build, anyway, unless you are talking about something
> completely different from what I think you do.  I find it disturbing,
> however, that our default build uses NDEBUG to disable assertions.
> Under normal circumstances, assertions have negligible speed impact.  It
> makes little sense to restrict their use explicitly to non-optimized
> builds.  In particular since it makes it quite unlikely that one can
> catch Heisenbugs with assertions: they often go away with significant
> code changes, and switching optimization off most certainly _is_ a
> significant change.

I didn't say that the debug symbols affect code speed.

The unoptimized binary is much slower, at least on my system.

Mike is suggesting we stop shipping optimized binaries.

Cheers,
Neil