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TheThingsArchive / packet_forwarder

Packet forwarder for Linux based gateways

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Binary stripping #70

Closed egourlao closed 7 years ago

egourlao commented 7 years ago

This PR adds two stripping operations to the build process, to answer to #68 :

In the make build process, the -s strip Go flag is added. For the Multitech Conduit binary, this reduces the binary size from 11Mb to 9Mb.
In the GitLab CI file for the release executables, upx is added. For the previous generated binary, it reduces the binary size from 9Mb to 3Mb.

The induced decompression time at startup is also reasonable: for a Multitech Conduit build, the startup time goes from 2.6 seconds to 3.2 seconds.