Making Rust binaries smaller by default, https://kobzol.github.io/rust/cargo/2024/01/23/making-rust-binaries-smaller-by-default.html.
Cargo now strips debuginfo from stdlib by default for a release build, thus saving 4Mb on the resulting binary. That’s really great!
The author explains the process to collect the statistics, to reach maintainers, to write a proposal, to implement it and to finally see it getting merged.
#RustLang #compiler #performance
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