Package size is very large

[lpil]

Hi!

We're trying to shrink some Elixir docker images and we're finding that the appsignal package is a large proportion of the compiled images that have it.

   14.9 MiB [##########] /appsignal-1.11.1
    4.3 MiB [##        ] /elixir-1.9.2
    3.9 MiB [##        ] /stdlib-3.10
    3.8 MiB [##        ] /tzdata-1.0.2
    2.3 MiB [#         ] /waive-1.0.0
    2.2 MiB [#         ] /timex-3.6.1
    1.9 MiB [#         ] /compiler-7.4.6
    1.8 MiB [#         ] /kernel-6.5
    1.6 MiB [#         ] /comeonin-5.1.2
    1.5 MiB [          ] /crypto-4.6
    1.4 MiB [          ] /ssl-9.4
    1.1 MiB [          ] /ecto-3.2.3
    1.1 MiB [          ] /phoenix-1.4.10
    1.0 MiB [          ] /jose-1.9.0
    1.0 MiB [          ] /mix-1.9.2
... more

Most of the data is these files

    6.8 MiB [##########]  libappsignal.a
    4.7 MiB [######    ]  appsignal-agent
    2.8 MiB [####      ]  appsignal_extension.so

Would it be possible to build these artefacts to be smaller? Strip any debug information for example.

Thank you, Louis

[jeffkreeftmeijer]

Hey @lpil,

Thanks for raising this issue. The build shouldn't include debug information in the current version. We've done some testing to see if you could easily remove the libappsignal.a file after compiling the extension. However, that causes trouble recompiling the extension if that's ever needed, which would require updating the dependency to get a new version of the file. Because of that, we haven't added removing the .a file to our Makefile.

We'll keep this issue open to stay the lookout for ways to reduce the package size. Any suggestions here would be welcome. :)

[lpil]

Thank you. Merry Christmas to all at AppSignal! 🎄