libgo sizes
32665042: original size
27607770: after removing the debug sections using the objcopy command
from below
22474602: after removing all debug sections using objcopy
On 03/02/2015 02:08 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Lynn A. Boger
<labo...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
I removed the 3 debug sections from libgo that were listed on the objcopy
command.
I left in: debug_info, debug_line, debug_abbrev, debug_ranges, and
debug_str in their original form.
Understood. I mean: if you add up the total sizes of the original
debug info sections, and the total sizes of the remaining debug info
sections, what percentage of the total debug info did you remove?
After all, the only point of removing debug info is to decrease the
size of the files.
Ian
On 03/02/2015 01:58 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Lynn A. Boger
<labo...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
objcopy -R .debug_aranges -R .debug_frame -R .debug_loc libgo.so.7.0.0
What percentage of the total size of .debug sections got removed by
this process?
A problem with that approach is that .debug_info and .debug_abbrevs
sections are large but are almost entirely unnecessary to just get
file/line information. Unfortunately almost unnecessary is not the
same as completely unnecessary; they can be greatly reduced, but not
completely eliminated.
Ian
