Go Binary Sizes Are Growing out of Control

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by donatj • 13 years ago

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nekitamo• 13 years ago

If the binary sizes are a problem for you, a temporary solution could be to pack them with something like UPX.

http://upx.sourceforge.net/

donatj2• 13 years ago

I've used other packers and the reduction was slight, less than half.

shirro• 13 years ago

While this might make Go unsuitable for embedded use it doesn't invalidate it for a server backend where data structures, cache and database storage dwarf the executable size.

It is still easier to ship a single statically linked go executable than a language runtime and libraries with your code (eg python, ruby, php etc).

enneff• 13 years ago

We're on it: https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=6853

A goal for Go 1.3 is to address this.

donatj2• 13 years ago

Awesome.

treerex• 13 years ago

Bah, as a Lisp programmer a standalone executable for hello world weighs in at 43 MB (SBCL 1.1.8 on Mac OS 10.8.5).

Go Binary Sizes Are Growing out of Control

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