[MPlayer-users] does debug compile affect performance?

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Corey Hickey wrote:

CH>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
CH>I'm too lazy to test this myself. Does compiling mplayer with
CH>--enable-debug=3 have any effect on the performance of mplayer or
CH>mencoder?

Well, -g3 option surely does not affect performance, but -DDEBUG or
#define MP_DEBUG 1, which configure sets, may.

In other words, there may be small slowdowns when using --enable-debug.
With =2 or =3 only size increases and more debug information is added,
speed should remain the same.

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Vladimir