Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS
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Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS
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Re: Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS
#2Generally on Apple platforms the move here would be putting the shared binary into a dynamic .framework rather then trying to eliminate the shared dependency. Is this a limitation of authoring it in Go that it has to be entirely static?
Re: Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS
#3Generally on Apple platforms the move here would be putting the shared binary into a dynamic .framework rather then trying to eliminate the shared dependency. Is this a limitation of authoring it in Go that it has to be entirely static?
It could also be a legacy of a lot of the team coming from Google, which statically links everything except glibc.
Re: Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS
#4Generally on Apple platforms the move here would be putting the shared binary into a dynamic .framework rather then trying to eliminate the shared dependency. Is this a limitation of authoring it in Go that it has to be entirely static?
(I’m the author of the post)
The solution we ended up with was partially a matter of the minimum change to fix the issue, and partly because we have a lot of platforms to cover with a small team, so the fewer platform-specific concepts we have (frameworks in this case), the easier it is to maintain.
Re: Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS
#5As a Tailscale user, nice work! I applaud the effort and appreciate the result.
Re: Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS
#6Generally on Apple platforms the move here would be putting the shared binary into a dynamic .framework rather then trying to eliminate the shared dependency. Is this a limitation of authoring it in Go that it has to be entirely static?
As a user I’d prefer faster startup over shaving off a couple MB tbh.
Re: Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS
#7Guys, please figure out a way to reduce your footprint on openwrt.
11452 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11.2M Sep 1 2021 /usr/sbin/tailscaled
7612 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7.4M Sep 1 2021 /usr/sbin/tailscale
I love tailscale, but it forces me to use usb sticks on most of my openwrt routers.
Re: Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS
#8I seem to remember reading that upx had a performance impact (startup times?).
@mihaip, have you been able to measure any changes before/after?
Re: Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS
#9Generally on Apple platforms the move here would be putting the shared binary into a dynamic .framework rather then trying to eliminate the shared dependency. Is this a limitation of authoring it in Go that it has to be entirely static?
As a user I’d prefer faster startup over shaving off a couple MB tbh.
Even if so that takes benchmarking on the target systems. Linking can be fast compared to reading a few extra MB from disk.
Re: Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS
#101.5 MB for a stub binary which does nothing but load and call a symbol from another file seems a little excessive in its own right.