[Insight-developers] PROPOSAL: Change default build type to "Release"

[Bill Lorensen]

Actually, I almost always build RelWithDebInfo.

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell <
marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Matthew McCormick (thewtex)
> <matt at mmmccormick.com> wrote:
> > I like a third option -- RelWithDebInfo.
> >
> > That produces '-g -O2', at least on Linux.
> >
> > It is nice to have debugging symbols in there for a quick correction
> > in case something goes wrong.  '-g -O2' is also good for profiling.
> >
> > -O2 is nicer than -O3 because you still get the optimizations that
> > have the most impact speed while still keeping compile time
> > reasonable.  We may also dissuade new users from continuing if it
> > takes forever to compile.
>
> Yes, that is something I have been using more too, and could be a
> great compromise. With GCC -O3 can really bloat compile times with
> little gain (and sometimes slowdowns). The Windows (MSVC) run time
> increases we have seen have largely been due to STL when in debug
> mode, there are ways of reducing the impact that some of the ParaView
> Windows guys have been looking into.
>
> Marcus
>
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