My local node `master` branch build (V8 6.4.388-40) does have a large libv8_base.a, but the final binary is small. Maybe the compilers are putting more stuff in there that the linker strips out.
❯ ls -l ./out/Release/libv8_base.a -rw-r--r-- 1 ofrobots eng 1269949240 Feb 7 08:14 ./out/Release/libv8_base.a ❯ ls -l out/Release/node -rwxr-xr-x 1 ofrobots eng 36398764 Feb 7 08:14 out/Release/node On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 4:25 PM Jakob Kummerow <jkumme...@chromium.org> wrote: > That does indeed seem very large. On Linux with a current checkout (and > without v8_static_library=true), my out/x64.release/obj/v8_base directory > with all the .o files is only 29MB. > > Unfortunately, I have no idea what might be causing the difference in your > case. Do any *.o files stand out as very big? Have you tried deleting the > output directory (remember to save your args.gn first!) and compiling > everything from scratch? It's a blunt instrument but sometimes helps get > rid of old cruft... > > > On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 3:58 PM Ryan Dahl <r...@tinyclouds.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've noticed that the build size in the latest V8 releases is very large. >> >> For example, on 6.5.257, I get >> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 rld staff 1.1G Feb 7 18:49 out/v8build/obj//libv8_base.a >> >> It's similarly large on 6.6.164. I'm experiencing this on OSX and here is >> the configuration I'm using: >> >> is_component_build=false >> is_debug=false >> v8_deprecation_warnings=true >> v8_enable_gdbjit=false >> v8_enable_i18n_support=false >> v8_experimental_extra_library_files=[] >> v8_extra_library_files=[] >> v8_imminent_deprecation_warnings=true >> v8_static_library=true >> v8_target_cpu="x64" >> v8_untrusted_code_mitigations=false >> v8_use_external_startup_data=false >> v8_use_snapshot=false >> >> Any suggestions on how to reduce the size? I'm surprised that the build >> size has gone from under 100M to over 1G in the span of a few years - is >> this a bug on my end or working as intended? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Ryan >> >> >> -- >> -- >> v8-users mailing list >> v8-users@googlegroups.com >> http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "v8-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to v8-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > -- > v8-users mailing list > v8-users@googlegroups.com > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "v8-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to v8-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- v8-users mailing list v8-users@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to v8-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
