title: Benefits of 'Optimize code' option in Visual Studio build
body: <p>Much of our C# release code is built with the 'Optimize code' option turned off. I believe this is to allow code built in Release mode to be debugged more easily.</p>
  
  <p>Given that we are creating fairly simple desktop software which connects to backend Web Services, (ie. not a particularly processor-intensive application) then what if any sort of performance hit might be expected?</p>
  
  <p>And is any particular platform likely to be worse affected? Eg. multi-processor / 64 bit.</p>