Here, stripping a non-opt debug linux 64bit libxul brings it down from 534 MB down to 117 MB.
Benoit 2013/12/3 L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> > On Tuesday 2013-12-03 10:18 -0800, Brian Smith wrote: > > Also, I would be very interested in seeing "size of libxul.so" for > > fully-optimized (including PGO, where we normally do PGO) builds. Do > > unified builds help or hurt libxul size for release builds? Do unified > > builds help or hurt performance in release builds? > > I'd certainly hope that nearly all of the difference in size of > libxul.so is debugging info that wouldn't be present in a non-debug > build. But it's worth testing, because if that's not the case, > there are some serious improvements that could be made in the C/C++ > toolchain... > > -David > > -- > 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 > 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 > Before I built a wall I'd ask to know > What I was walling in or walling out, > And to whom I was like to give offense. > - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914) > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
