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		Filligree 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Huge Binaries There’s no way my proxy binary actually requires 25GB of code, or even the 3GB it is. Sounds to me like the answer is a tree shaker.

Sesse__ 10 days ago [–]

Google implemented the C++ equivalent of a tree shaker in their build system around 2009.

setheron 10 days ago | [–]

the front-end services to be "fast" AFAIK probably include nearly all the services you need to avoid hops -- so you can't really shake that much away.

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