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From: Elmar Pruesse <p@ucdenver.edu>
To: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Reducing git size by building libgit.so
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 19:52:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21f1f334-755e-3283-d0da-ec0ab9231cfc@ucdenver.edu> (raw)

Hi!

The total compiled size of libexec/git-core is currently somewhere 
around 30 MB. This is largely due to a number of binaries linking 
statically against libgit.a. For some folks, every byte counts. I 
meddled with the Makefile briefly to make it build and use a libgit.so 
instead, which dropped package size down to 5MB.

Are there, beyond the ~20 ms in extra startup time and the slightly 
bigger hassle with DSO locations, reasons for the choice to link statically?

best,

Elmar


             reply	other threads:[~2019-06-11 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-11 19:52 Elmar Pruesse [this message]
2019-06-11 23:48 ` Reducing git size by building libgit.so brian m. carlson
2019-06-12  9:29   ` Duy Nguyen
2019-06-12 13:57   ` Paul Smith
2019-06-12 23:31     ` brian m. carlson
2019-06-13 19:19       ` Johannes Sixt
2019-06-13  7:51     ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-06-13 17:28       ` Paul Smith
2019-06-13 18:23         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-12  9:41 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-12  9:46   ` Duy Nguyen
2019-06-12 10:25   ` SZEDER Gábor

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