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		metaltyphoon 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Users don't care about your tech stack Why is not —release being passed to cargo? It’s not like the File Pilo mentioned by GP is released with debug symbols.

bitbasher 10 months ago [–]

The original post/blog said a debug hello world was 3.7MB. I confirmed the post.

A release build is:

426K Feb 21 15:28 target/release/helloworld

If you use lto, codegen-units = 1 and strip then you get:

323K Feb 21 15:30 target/release/helloworld

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