Re: [groff] More on stripping

[Damian McGuckin]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2018, Doug McIlroy wrote:

> The variance in running times pretty well swamped the difference between 
> -ms padded and unpadded. The difference was at most a few percent.

I tried some hypothetic similar tests and got similar results. Even on a 
low power, slowish (firewall) CPU. Mind you, lots faster than a PDP-11.

> With Peter preferring to distribute -mom unstripped, it's hard to find 
> an argument for default stripping.

I would concur.

Regards - Damian

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