Silicon Valley D Meetup - December 14, 2017 - "Experimenting with Link Time Optimization" by Jon Degenhardt

[Johan Engelen]

On Saturday, 16 December 2017 at 19:40:14 UTC, Jon Degenhardt 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 December 2017 at 11:52:37 UTC, Johan Engelen 
> wrote:
>>
>> Can't wait to see the results of LTO on Weka.io's (LARGE) 
>> applications. Work in progress...!
>
> Agreed. It'd be great to see the experience of a few more apps.

Don't have performance numbers yet. But the executable size of 
the release build with ThinLTO drops to a third of the non-LTO 
executable size...!!! 809 MB to 250 MB.
(That's without an LTO build of druntime/Phobos.)

-Johan