Sung N. Cho writes:

>But, I have to admit, my kdemedia player works just as fine under "-O2" or 
>"-O3".   But, definitely having "-g" makes noticeable performance degrade 
>from kdemedia player (hears short interrupts when opening files!) and my 
>kernel was huge, 14Meg!"

how should that be, considering the symbol tables produced with -g
aren't part of the loaded image (they just stay on-disk for use with
a debugger)...

  --mkb