Is the debug .lib supposed to be so much smaller than the release .lib? Or has something gotten switched somewhere?

I am running into a strange situation... I am using the following code:


int aTick=gAppPtr->Tick();

gEngine = asCreateScriptEngine(ANGELSCRIPT_VERSION);
asIScriptModule *aModule=gEngine->GetModule("TESTMODULE", asGM_ALWAYS_CREATE);
aModule->AddScriptSection("TESTSECTION",aBuffer.mData,aBuffer.mDataLen);
int aResult=aModule->Build();
asIScriptFunction *aFunction=aModule->GetFunctionByDecl("int GetNumber()");
asIScriptContext *aContext = gEngine->CreateContext();
aContext->Prepare(aFunction);
aResult=aContext->Execute();
if (aResult==asEXECUTION_FINISHED)
{
int aResult=aContext->GetReturnDWord();
printf("Result: %d",aResult);
}

printf("Execution Time: %d",(gAppPtr->Tick()-aTick));


To quickly and simply run this script (I was just doing a timing/syntax test):


[int GetNumber()
{
return GetOtherNumber()*2;
}

int GetOtherNumber()
{
int aResult=0;
for (int aCount=0;aCount<2000000;aCount++)
{
aResult+=2;
aResult-=1;
}
return aResult;
}


And with the release .lib, it takes about 45-50ms, but with the debug.lib, it takes only 30-35ms... that's right, the debug runs about a third faster than the release.

Angelscript.lib is almost 6mb, and the angelscriptd.lib is about 3.5.

That's not correct, right? These are reversed somehow, no? I looked at the projects, and they all look okay, but I can't believe this isn't backwards unless someone explicitely tells me so.

I used the MSVC10 project, used .lib files out of the box from the download-- only thing I switched was to use multi-threaded instead of multi-threaded DLL, so that it matched my projects.

Is the size right? If that's right, then I'll assume the slowdown is coming from my project settings somehow. If I execute the script 100 times, then it's slightly faster in release mode, so could this just be one of those things?

Turning off /GL fixed both problems. Maybe MSVC10 has a bug? It lists /GL as "whole program optimization" so maybe it's optimizing so hard, it ends up unoptimizing, like a politician.