After completing development of your application, you should recompile and link your program with the production libraries. Because of the level of error checking and overhead needed for running the debugging system, there is a code size and speed penalty when using the development libraries with the error reporting system enabled. By using the production libraries, your distributed application will not suffer these speed and memory-use penalties. Be sure, however, that your code checks the return values from all Vermont Views functions that can return run-time errors. Once you link with the production libraries, error checking and error recovery are entirely your responsibility.
Chapter 52, "Preparing Your Application for Distribution," includes a section on how to compile and link using the run-time libraries.
