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Measuring the size of Nim hello-world executables. This repo was created mainly as a citation for https://nim-lang.org/blog/2022/12/21/version-20-rc.html
Nim binary size
"Hello, World!" binary size in Nim.
Instructions
Run
nim c -r build.nim
which compiles the Nim program
echo "Hello, World!"
with various sets of compilation options.
Results
| -d:release[^1] | LTO[^2] | strip[^3] | --opt:size[^4] | statically link | Linux | macOS | Windows |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98.2 KiB | 109.4 KiB | 188.7 KiB | |||||
| ✔️ | 67.3 KiB | 71.7 KiB | 151.5 KiB | ||||
| ✔️ | ✔️ | 39.5 KiB | 67.6 KiB | 132.0 KiB | |||
| ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | 34.5 KiB | 65.1 KiB | 79.5 KiB | ||
| ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | 26.5 KiB | 49.1 KiB | 64.0 KiB | |
| ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | via musl-gcc[^5] |
30.0 KiB | ||
| ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | via musl-clang[^6] |
30.0 KiB | ||
| ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | via zig cc[^7] |
6.1 KiB |
[^1]: Perform a release build: -d:release (the default is a debug build)
[^2]: Enable Link-Time Optimization: --passC:-flto --passL:-flto
[^3]: Remove debug symbols: --passL:-s
[^4]: Optimize for reduced binary size: --opt:size (the default is --opt:speed)
[^5]: Add --cc:gcc --gcc.exe:musl-gcc --gcc.linkerexe:musl-gcc --passL:-static
[^6]: Add --cc:clang --clang.exe:musl-clang --clang.linkerexe:musl-clang --passL:-static
[^7]: Add --panics:on -d:useMalloc --os:any -d:posix -d:noSignalHandler --cc=clang --clang.exe='zigcc' --clang.linkerexe='zigcc' --passC:'-target x86_64-linux-musl' --passL:'-target x86_64-linux-musl'
Details
All results from 2023-03-31 on x86_64 with Nim 2.0 nightly release 2023-03-30 (corresponding to a Nim compiler built from commit nim-lang/Nim@2e4ba4a).
Linux
- Arch Linux
- glibc 2.37
- gcc 12.2.1
- clang 15.0.7
- musl 1.2.3
- zig 0.10.1
macOS
- macOS 12
- clang 14.0.0
Windows
- Windows Server 2022
- Mingw-w64 11.2.0
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