On Saturday, 28 May 2022, Morten Linderud <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Morten Linderud <[email protected]> > > `dwz` allows us to compress the DWARF files when building debug > packages. Potentially shaving off some of the sizes of the symbols we > distribute. > > https://sourceware.org/dwz/ > > A sample of packages built with dwz; > > pacman: > Original debug info size: 1520kB > Size after compression: 1252kB > > systemd: > Original debug info size: 46692kB > Size after compression: 41036kB > > Out of curiosity: have you measured the overhead? The one during package creation and runtime one during extraction. Especially for larger packages - say chromium, Firefox, etc That aside, I really like the explicit die-limit args which should ensure that even the debug packages stay reproducible. Thanks Emil
