apparently including Git into a program which does nothing increases its size to 2.5 megabytes
@Lady i feel like that shouldn’t be happening but i don’t really understand it enough to diagnose. also C sometimes libraries are just built like this so
@aescling i don't know enough about how linkers operate to say. but git does do a huge amount of setup and teardown (see <https://github.com/git/git/commit/3f2e2297b9c88a6ab5fc4bff02cf2a07ce057589>)
@aescling for the record this was without link‐time optimization; if you add -flto the size drops to just under one megabyte
@aescling *maybe ten kilobytes if you do -flto while building git as well
@aescling (i’m using git’s Makefiles as a base and apparently they do not believe in LTO by default)
@aescling “maybe ten kilobytes” might be wrong; i think i got this somehow but now i’m not reproducing it??
still a lot better than Chrome