Enable Link-Time Optimization (LTO) for cargo-zigbuild and cargo-xwin #280
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Hi!
I noticed that in the
Cargo.toml
file Link-Time Optimization (LTO) for the project is not enabled. I suggest switching it on since it will reduce the binary size (always a good thing to have) and will likely improve the application's performance a bit.I suggest enabling LTO only for the Release builds so as not to sacrifice the developers' experience while working on the project since LTO consumes an additional amount of time to finish the compilation routine. If you think that a regular Release build should not be affected by such a change as well, then I suggest adding an additional
dist
orrelease-lto
profile where additionally to regularrelease
optimizations LTO will also be added. Such a change simplifies life for maintainers and others interested in the project persons who want to build the most performant version of the application. Using ThinLTO should also help to reduce the build-time overhead with LTO. If we enable it on the Cargo profile level, users, who install the application withcargo install
, will get the LTO-optimized version "automatically". E.g., checkcargo-binstall
Release profile.Basically, it can be enabled with the following lines:
I made quick tests locally (Rustc 1.81, latest project versions, Fedora 40):
cargo-zigbuild
binary size reduction from enablinglto = true
: from 4.1 Mib to 3.2 Mibcargo-xwin
binary size reduction from enablinglto = true
: from 12 Mib to 8.4 MibThank you.
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