Benefits of 'Optimize code' option in Visual Studio build

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Published on 2010-03-15T00:39:04Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 0:49 UTC
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Much of our C# release code is built with the 'Optimize code' option turned off. I believe this is to allow code built in Release mode to be debugged more easily.

Given that we are creating fairly simple desktop software which connects to backend Web Services, (ie. not a particularly processor-intensive application) then what if any sort of performance hit might be expected?

And is any particular platform likely to be worse affected? Eg. multi-processor / 64 bit.

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