We had a discussion here: https://discord.com/channels/1028444667789967381/1028444668918235197/1124528209610936360

The gist of it was basically:

• enable debugOptimized builds for GitHub Actions.

The initial reason for this discussion was to enable the path tracing toggle in Release builds. However, later discussion seemed to lean toward using debugOptimized builds, so long as they're added to GitHub Actions. This would resolve the issue of limited debugging options and it'd allow us to toggle path tracing as necessary for development/troubleshooting reasons.

enableValidationLayers under this mode also must be false to be optimized

Thanks!

If there are concerns about unfair comparisons even when limited to debugOptimized builds, there is another option by @anchorlightforge

Ideally if this were implemented, it should be smaller for both debug and debugOptimized builds, otherwise it'd be very intrusive and in the way.