Subj : Re: what's difference between release and debug compiler in MS vc6.0?
To   : comp.programming
From : Gene
Date : Sun Oct 09 2005 08:35 pm

One other thing that can be important is that debug links the debug
versions of malloc(), where each malloc()'ed block contains a fairly
large extra chunk of debugging information.  With vc6 I believe it's
about 40 bytes.  So if you are allocating many small blocks, the debug
version of a code can require several _times_ as much memory as the
release version.

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