Reduce Rust Wasm Module Size By 85% (wasm-snip) #898
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closes: #896
After going through the rust documentation here:
https://rustwasm.github.io/book/reference/code-size.html
I instrumented the wasm modules, and found out that ~85% of the code was "dead" and unreachable (thank you
twiggy
). I then used another tool the guide recommended,wasm-snip
, and boom our module size shrank tremendously!The "dead code" in question was: