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		mystikal on March 4, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Announcing Rust 1.7 In theory you could tell the compiler to identify and statically link only those functions needed to make printf work (or a conservative approximation thereof).

microtonal on March 4, 2016 | [–]

As far as I know, jemalloc is a substantial part of that binary size. See e.g.:

https://github.com/japaric/rust-on-openwrt/issues/1#issuecom...

https://github.com/japaric/std-with-cargo#making-rust-binari...

Manishearth on March 4, 2016 | [–]

Yeah, that's just running LTO (`-C lto`). This brings the binary size down a bit, thought you also need to opt out of jemalloc to get a good impact.

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