Just to put one more variable in the discussion, building with Release or RelWithDebInfo mode disables the asserts in most code (due to the -DNDEBUG flag), so I am a bit against making either of those the default. I agree that uninformed people just compile using catkin_make/ament and find that the code runs slower than expected so maybe better documentation about that would be good, maybe even show a warning at the start of build that no optimizations are enabled by default. --- [Visit Topic](https://discourse.ros.org/t/ament-build-for-release/915/6) or reply to this email to respond. If you do not want to receive messages from ros-users please use the unsubscribe link below. If you use the one above, you will stop all of ros-users from receiving updates. ______________________________________________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users Unsubscribe: