Rust platform size (round 2)

Reopening this issue as its not fixed. On my last post in July the size was
294 MB:

#61978 (comment)

comically, its actually larger now at 347 MB:

https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.msi

[memoryruins]

The installer's origin states it was created on 10/10/2019 6:48 PM, which is hours before #64823 merged. The artifact sizes of that PR match up with its description. Check on it again tomorrow?

[matthiaskrgr]

Hi, using the master toolchain https://github.com/kennytm/rustup-toolchain-install-master I can confirm that it downloads
65.83 MB rustc-nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz
and
17.59 MB rust-std-nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz
now (the latter was around 10 times that previously).

[est31]

To give a table like #61978 (comment) :

file name	dbeed58 (prior to #59800 merge)	898f36c (prior to #64823 merge)	000d90b (after #64823 merge)
rustc-nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	122 073 207	101 219 999	101 214 839
rust-std-nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	82 951 040	215 628 828	25 056 035
cargo-nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	6 751 312	6 827 556	6 834 296
rustc-nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz	82 391 063	61 214 933	61 228 366
rust-std-nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz	74 663 690	222 313 575	20 421 375
cargo-nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz	4 450 362	4 526 714	4 528 683

Created by the commands (with some manual formatting afterwards):

export TOOLS="rustc-nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz rust-std-nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz cargo-nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz rustc-nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz rust-std-nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz cargo-nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz"

for TOOL in $TOOLS; do printf "| $TOOL |"; for COMMIT in 898f36c83cc28d7921a1d7b3605323dc5cfcf533 000d90b11f7be70ffb7812680f7abc6deb52ec88; do curl -I -s https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/rust-lang-ci2/rustc-builds/${COMMIT}/${TOOL} | rg Content-Length | tr -d '\r' | tr -d '\n' | sed 's/.*: //;s/\(.*\)/ \1 |/'; done; echo ; done

So we had some really nice reductions thanks to #64823, even if you compare with the state before #59800.

[est31]

@cup rust-nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.msi as of commit 000d90b is now only 170M. So definitely a reduction here.

[nagisa]

Closing as per investigation above.

[est31]

@nagisa rust has still the largest package of the list in the original issue #61978 (comment) . The regression (that appeared after that original bug was filed) is fixed now, but it would still be cool to reduce the platform size even further.

E.g. #65251 will mean another improvement. In the 1.38 package, librustc_codegen_llvm-emscripten.so takes 36.7 MB uncompressed and (if my measurement method doesn't lie) 14 MB compressed.

I am going to close this as I feel it has been fixed in spirit. Current size is
162 MB which is a 20% reduction from the "round 1" issue size. If someone has a good case for why it should be reduced further they can open their own issue, thanks.