[Insight-developers] Should default compile mode be Debug, Release or RelWithDebInfo?

[Tom Vercauteren]

Hi all,

It seems that many new ITK users find ITK slow. Part of this is of
course based on some truth, but in many cases it ends up by
"OK, I didn't know I had to compile in Release mode."

So I am wondering whether it wouldn't be easier if, by default, ITK
was build in Release mode (or maybe RelWithDebInfo).

Indeed, I would expect that people that need ITK in debug mode are
people that know how to use a debugger and hence can manage to find
the adequate CMake option to switch to Debug.

On the other hand newbies are less likely to know how to use a
debugger, won't tweak with CMake options and expect things to run
fast.

Any thoughts?

Tom