Stream: git-wasmtime

Topic: wasmtime / Issue #2368 Add -fdata-section support to cran...

Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Nov 05 2020 at 17:59):

bjorn3 opened Issue #2368:

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Feature

This is the data object counterpart to https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/pull/2218.

Benefit

Same as per_function_sections. From the description of #2218:

This makes it possible for the linker to omit unused functions when --gc-sections is passed.

For cg_clif the executable size savings are quite big. One example is 26MB when a single .text section is used, but 15MB when a single section for each function is used, which is the same as when compiled using cg_llvm. I will probably disable this in debug mode though as it significantly increases the linking time.

Implementation

Similar to #2218

Alternatives

N/A

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