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		compiler-guy 63 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shrinking While Linking A very quick paraphrase, sure. Don't really think it is sarcastic, but whatever. The custom-use-case is the article's very raison-d'etre: "... I wanted to distribute a static library and the size was causing me problems. Specifically, I had a Rust library that I wanted to make available to Go developers." The option is LTO. The situation here is a bit like building a binary with debug info, and then saying, "But I don't need debug info and it is causing me size-problems, so I'll strip it." But the better option is to not build with debug info in the first place.

kragen 63 days ago [–]

I don't think of distributing a static library as a particularly custom use case, but more as the default way to distribute a compiled library.

I missed that LTO was a non-default option! Thanks for pointing that out. In that case I agree.

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