Why?

But when you release you don''t want the debug overhead in there.

Debug is for you to fix things.

Release is for everyone else once you have made it bug free. (if that is possible)

Release is more optomized, while debug is less optomized, and release has smaller files with less overhead, while debug has larger files with debugging information put into it.

Billy - BillyB@mrsnj.com

Because I''d rather have something small and fast than large and slow?

Releasing a debug build with all debug information, symbols, etc, is actually the nicest thing you can do - for your competition... It will make it a lot easier to reverse engineer or even decompile your code, or maybe crack a copy protection it might have.

As this is generally a highly undesirable effect for a software developer, code is always released in a non-debug (release) version. As a side effect, the optimization level is much higher too, and the code will run faster.

Why? Because.

Its not knowing the path but walking it.

Unless the debug environment is redistributable, most users wont be able to run your debug applications.

if i am not mistaken, MFC dll files for debug mode is only available in visual studio. i think other dll''s from microsoft as well.

you wont be able to run debug mode programs on other machines if it does not have visual studio.

It does run!
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Example relating to speed. I''m in the middle of a small fighting game that uses .smd (half-life) files for the character animation - each character has over 50 animations (currently) and to read and load those files on initialization in debug mode can take up to 20 seconds. When I do a release build and run my program the files are loaded in around 3 seconds. All the debug information, padding and other helpers included in a debug build to help track down bugs comes at a price.

Chris Z.
ZeroFX Interactive

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Releasing a debug build with all debug information, symbols, etc, is actually the nicest thing you can do - for your competition...

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Yeah, right. Like a competitor would waste his time reverse engineering a program made by a guy who releases a debug build.

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Yeah, right. Like a competitor would waste his time reverse engineering a program made by a guy who releases a debug build.

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Heheheh. Indeed.

You know DeClown, if there exists a debug build and a release build, it must be a reason. Features cost time to implement. Time is money.