From: Alex Ionescu
Because it takes people on 56K modems 4 more hours to download the ISO.
Call me spoiled, but I don't think we should limit ourselves by the possibilities of 56K modems.
Because it makes the installation media much larger; gone is the possibility to give off cool looking ROS CDs on those "business card sized" CDs or other similar media.
Right... How many of these have we given away?
The rsym section can be NOLOAD so there is no memory bloat.
Please elaborate...do we support NOLOAD?
Yes
Is it marked as NOLOAD?
Yes
I doubt it, because when I boot ReactOS DBG it's using 50MB of memory.
That's because the symbol handling code now goes in and reads the rossym section. It's not the loader, it's the symbol handling code.
I'm merely asking for RELEASE builds to be just that *release* builds.
And that sounds reasonable when we get at ReactOS 1.0. Until that time, the more debug info available, the better.
You want them to have symbols built-in the files. I'm saying that it forces *everyone* to have 64MB computers.
No, it doesn't. There's a difference between including the symbols in the files and loading them into memory.
Gé van Geldorp