That's very helpful. Thanks a lot. I will try them out.
By the way, when linking two libraries, say, they both instantiate classes from
the same template class (e.g. defined in a 'common' component), into an
executable, will the linker remove the duplicate class instance?
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:29:09 -0700
Subject: Re: [cfe-users] optimize template-heavy project with duplicate code
removal
From: dblai...@gmail.com
To: chen...@outlook.com
CC: cfe-users@lists.llvm.org
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 3:12 PM, chen xu <chen...@outlook.com> wrote:
Thanks, David. The build type is Debug. Today I tried removing the debug info
(-g), the size of the executable could be cut 90%, to around 100MB, which looks
not bad. Do you know whether there is a way to separate debug info file from
the executable file on Linux?
Yep, -gsplit-dwarf - latest versions of GDB can cope with this debug info
You can also compress the debug info: -Wa,--compress-debug-sections
If you want linked debug info (rather than split debug info), consider enabling
type units to deduplicate debug info in your final executable
(-fdebug-types-section). Mainly our code is already there, refactoring might
require big effort.. Also, does clang support -fno-implicit-templates? if yes,
maybe we could use it to eliminate duplicate template instances to control the
final size.
Not sure, off hand, whether Clang supports that.
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 16:59:04 -0700
Subject: Re: [cfe-users] optimize template-heavy project with duplicate code
removal
From: dblai...@gmail.com
To: chen...@outlook.com
CC: cfe-users@lists.llvm.org
debug or non-debug build?
& no, for a full release build, measuring the final executable size, there's
not much you can do with the compiler.
you can try to factor common portions out of your templates (eg: remove
template parameters where possible - if, for example, a member function of a
class template doesn't need all the template parameters - pull it out into a
standalone function template that takes fewer template parameters, and call it
from the member one)
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 4:43 PM, chen xu via cfe-users
<cfe-users@lists.llvm.org> wrote:
Hi, our project heavily uses c++ template, and the resulting executable is
almost 1.5G Bytes, which is too big to be acceptable. Adding -O2 or -Os does
not seem helping. Is there any way (like link option, etc) to reduce the size?
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