Ask HN: What are some non-standard ways to reduce the size of executable files?

2 comments

• jeffreygoesto 8 hours ago
  Avoid 3rd party dependencies and C++ templates.
• sargstuff 6 hours ago
  Working with / compiling from source code (portable/non-portable): cosmopolitan libc[0]

  Each language kinda has own tricks,java[3], rust[4]

  From [1] : " A comparison of dietlibc, uclibc, musl, and glibc, by the author of musl: http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html "

  How to make smaller C and C++ binaries[7]

  Removing unused code[5] / Exploiting function similarity for code size reduction[6]

  -------

  [0] : a) https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/

        b) size tricks : https://justine.lol/sizetricks/
  

  [1] : Dietlibc - a libc optimized for small size : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21291893

  [2] : https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/dealing-with-large-symbo...

  [3] : java : https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/native-image...

  [4] minimizing rust : https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust

  [5] : https://tetzank.github.io/posts/removing-unused-code/

  [6] : https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2666357.2597811

  [7] : how to make smaller c and c++ binaries : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35853625

  [-]
  • FerkiHN 5 hours ago
    Thanks for you!