Changing CI builds to RelWithDebInfo from Debug

Ben Cooksley bcooksley at kde.org
Wed Jul 29 09:58:56 BST 2026


On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 8:23 PM Igor Mironchik <igor.mironchik at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tuesday, 28 July 2026 15:30:14 Moscow Standard Time Albert Vaca Cintora
> wrote:
> > Seems like a good idea to me. Since trying it is cheap, I would say we do
> > that and compare both size and CI time. I expect the compile time to go
> up
> > but the test time to go down (thanks to the optimized code), so it's hard
> > to predict if overall we will gain or lose in total time. We can decide
> if
> > it's worth it when we see the difference in size and time.
>
> Hi. I did a local test on Linux with gcc version 15.3.0 (SUSE Linux)  on
> my
> project.
>
> The results:
>
> Debug
>              build time:       03:14
>              test time:         00:09
>              space on disk: 833.3 MiB
>
> Release with -DECM_FORCE_ASSERTS=ON
>              build time:       05:52
>              test time:         00:09
>              space on disk: 120.3 MiB
>

Thanks Igor.

The reduction in disk space is largely what I was expecting. Did you do
Release or RelWithDebInfo?

Cheers,
Ben
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