The next option is the debug information. This does not directly affect performance, but it's an interesting configuration item. In this case, you can decide if the debug symbol information gets added to the final executable. This is really useful if you are developing, and especially if you are using a debugger such as GDB. Adding debug information to the executable will enable you to get the function names and even the line numbers of each instruction being executed in the processor. This will give you great insight about what is happening in the code.
In any case, debug information is not so useful in final release binaries, as final release binaries are not meant to be used in debugging. And the debug information usually ...
