[LLVMdev] PR723: Default To Optimized Build

[Chris Lattner]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, John Criswell wrote:
> One consideration to weigh is that a debug build of LLVM provides users with 
> more diagnostic information to submit with bug reports (since many bugs are 
> caught by assertions, which print a readable stack trace).  The tradeoff 
> seems to be faster and smaller LLVM tools (optimized build) vs. better 
> diagnostic information for bug reports (debug build).
>
> If the LLVM developers who regularly fix user bugs depend on that 
> information, we should keep it a debug build by default.  Otherwise, I think 
> an optimized build would be fine.

Another option is to build an optimized build with assertions on.  Do to 
local demand, I added a build option 'make ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1 
ENABLE_ASSERTIONS=1' that provides this.

-Chris

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