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Re: [tor-bugs] #2915 [Tor Client]: Explore options to reduce binary size of Tor
#2915: Explore options to reduce binary size of Tor
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Reporter: Sebastian | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: Tor: unspecified
Component: Tor Client | Version:
Keywords: | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Comment(by Sebastian):
Thanks for reminding me about the gzip, I got the following:
For Linux (note that I didn't manage to compile openssl with -ffunction-
sections -fdata-sections here, probably because I didn't try hard enough.
so only zlib and libevent are using that option). This leads to a binary
that is 150kB smaller when stripped and gzip'd, a space safe of a little
over 5%.
For OS X, the -ffunction-sections and -fdata-section options aren't
necessary, you just add -dead_strip to LDFLAGS. Here I got 150kB in
savings for the stripped and gzip'd binaries, that's over 10%. All in all,
I think it's still worth it because it isn't very hard to implement (at
least on OS X, openssl on linux/windows might be harder. Not sure).
To answer Jake's question: yes, sure. We should use it for all our
binaries if we can.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2915#comment:3>
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