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In the build settings panel of VS2010 Pro, there is a CheckBox with the label "optimize code"... of course, I want to check it... but being unusually cautious, I asked my brother about it and he said that it is unchecked for debugging and that in C++ it can potentially do things that would break or bug the code... but he doesn't know about C#.
So my question is, can I check this box for my release build without worrying about it breaking my code? Second, if it can break code, when and why? Links to explanations welcome.
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Optimization is necessary in the code generated by simple code generator due to the following reasons: Code optimization enhances the portability of the compiler to the target processor. Code optimization allows consumption of fewer resources (i.e. CPU, Memory). Optimized code has faster execution speed.
The code optimization in the synthesis phase is a program transformation technique, which tries to improve the intermediate code by making it consume fewer resources (i.e. CPU, Memory) so that faster-running machine code will result.
Code optimization is any method of code modification to improve code quality and efficiency. A program may be optimized so that it becomes a smaller size, consumes less memory, executes more rapidly, or performs fewer input/output operations.
You would normally use this option in a release build. It's safe and mainstream to do so. There's no reason to be afraid of releasing code with optimizations enabled. Enabling optimization can interfere with debugging which is a good reason to disable it for debug builds.
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