Minify binary size with upx

murlakatamenka commented 3 years ago

Hey, just a heads up that you can make rather large rattletrap binaries much smaller with upx (GitHub action).

For example, Linux binary with

upx --best --lzma rattletrap-11.0.1-ubuntu

gets compressed from 22 MiB to 3 MiB

                       Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
                          Copyright (C) 1996 - 2020
UPX git-d7ba31+ Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser   Jan 23rd 2020

        File size         Ratio      Format      Name
   --------------------   ------   -----------   -----------
  23634520 ->   3256224   13.78%   linux/amd64   rattletrap-11.0.1-ubuntu      

Packed 1 file.

tfausak commented 3 years ago

Does it matter how big the executable itself is? If not, I could compress the executables when I upload them to the release. I should probably do that regardless.

murlakatamenka commented 3 years ago

I think it's useful in general:

it may actually load faster (reading 3 MiB from disk and decompressing vs reading 20 MiB from disk)
packages like https://github.com/SaltieRL/carball that depend on rattletrap binary can be installed faster
you have over 100 releases on GitHub, they'd take waaay less space if binaries were compressed

Since it comes with virtually no drawbacks, then why not?

tfausak / rattletrap

Minify binary size with upx #239