meta(`releases`): reduce size of foundry binaries

karmacoma-eth commented 1 month ago

Component

Forge, Cast, Anvil, Chisel

Describe the feature you would like

on macOS, with last week's foundry, I noticed that the foundry binaries are quite large:

du -h ~/.foundry/bin
forge 0.2.0 (7f0f5b4 2024-08-08T00:20:13.526170000Z)
 22M    ~/.foundry/bin/anvil
 44M    ~/.foundry/bin/cast
 30M    ~/.foundry/bin/chisel
 66M    ~/.foundry/bin/forge

after foundryup, some of them got even bigger:

forge 0.2.0 (3e3b30c 2024-08-15T00:22:08.655383000Z)
 23M    ~/.foundry/bin/anvil
 44M    ~/.foundry/bin/cast
 31M    ~/.foundry/bin/chisel
 67M    ~/.foundry/bin/forge

This also contributes significantly to the size of docker images that install foundry. Thanks!

Additional context

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DaniPopes commented 2 weeks ago

A few more ideas:

ethers removal https://github.com/foundry-rs/foundry/pull/8826
using dyn more in cheatcodes/db generic (this should be bigger) https://github.com/foundry-rs/foundry/issues/8404

DaniPopes commented 1 week ago

Improvements since first post:

Before (forge 0.2.0 (3e3b30c 2024-08-15T00:19:22.864621297Z))

26M ./anvil
26M ./anvil.stripped
50M ./cast
50M ./cast.stripped
35M ./chisel
35M ./chisel.stripped
76M ./forge
76M ./forge.stripped

After (forge 0.2.0 (1d2379a 2024-09-22T00:23:17.631577994Z))

22M ./anvil
20M ./anvil.stripped
41M ./cast
36M ./cast.stripped
29M ./chisel
25M ./chisel.stripped
60M ./forge
54M ./forge.stripped

command: du -sh ~/.config/.foundry/bin/*
stripped with rm -f ./*.stripped; for f in ./*; do strip $f -o $f.stripped; done
on linux x64, which has larger binaries than OP's arm

Compare with February version (forge 0.2.0 (2cb8757 2024-02-03T00:16:46.961268899Z))

20M ./anvil
18M ./anvil.stripped
34M ./cast
31M ./cast.stripped
23M ./chisel
21M ./chisel.stripped
46M ./forge
42M ./forge.stripped

Note that the February version doesn't include much of alloy, has revm 3 which is pre-handlers, pre-eof, pre-soldeer etc; a ton less cheatcodes, config options... So some size increase is to be expected, but we can still do better

foundry-rs / foundry