I was wondering, after stripping libgcj.so, its footprint went from around 40 Mb to around 8 Mb: libgcj.so.4.0.0 39 833 506 libgcj-stripped.so.4.0.0 8 125 908 In order to improve startup times and memory footprint, would stripping libgcj affect the ability of an executable to produce stacktraces or so? Or would there by other side effects?