Enable link-time optimization for release builds - #177
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This creates faster and smaller binaries, at the cost of longer build times.
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Thanks, especially for doing the benchmarks on this! Seems like it's worth the build time cost. |
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Jun 26, 2019
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This creates faster and smaller binaries, at the cost of longer build times.
Benchmark
This comparison was made by running
oxipng -Zson all images from this repository (while they were already optimized).Before
After
It's not huge, but there's a noticeable speedup π
The release binary now weighs only 1.4 MB after stripping (compared to 1.7 MB before).