kornel, 9 months ago

@schtobia Static Rust hello world is about 350KB. Compile with --release and strip debug info.

https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust

schtobia, 9 months ago

@kornel ah, thanks! But this is not even everything, since it is still dynamically linked against libgcc, libc, linux-vdso. A "real" static #rust binary still accounts for around 1.2 MiB.

pasties, 9 months ago

@schtobia @kornel actually if you follow those instructions it won't be linked against anything. You don't even have to do nearly all of them to get to a static binary.

Also get out of here with this "real binary" garbage. It's a compiled binary that runs and was produced by the compiler you're arguing against. You don't get to move the goal post because you're wrong.

kornel, 9 months ago

@pasties @schtobia Dude, there's no need for such harsh language.

There are many options to trim executables even more, in both Rust and C. But it's not unreasonable to expect common/simple ways to be efficient.