Are there any strong reasons against "use memory economy" in release mode?

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Well, what the question says.

Of course switching it on in Debug mode means we can’t see rule names, which is bad for bug-hunting.

I realized, though, I’d been assuming it had no drawbacks in release.

Similarly, I’m curious about OMIT_UNUSED_ROUTINES’s possible ill effects on release builds, as it’s done a neat job of keeping some of my projects in z-machine range. It doesn’t feel like there should be any, but you never know.

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(Economy cuts down the verbosity of some of the testing commands, but otherwise subtracts no performance.)

…is what the docs say.

Similarly, I’m curious about OMIT_UNUSED_ROUTINES’s possible ill effects on release builds

It wasn’t really well-tested until the Punylib crowd started using it. At this point I think it’s proven safe.

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