If I have to perform debugging via WinDbg, are there are pro or cons or having release vs debug builds? I am just wondering if there are any limitations of doing debugging with the release build
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If I have to perform debugging via WinDbg, are there are pro or cons or having release vs debug builds? I am just wondering if there are any limitations of doing debugging with the release build
First of all you need debug information (.pdb) which you can have in both. Then release builds are usually optimized:
and this makes it much harder to understand what’s going on at the moment.
So in general release builds will be notable faster, but often harder to debug. Other than that you shouldn’t see any serious difference.