Comment 3 for bug 1564662

building cmd/juju with go 1.7 tip and then stripping results in a
binary that is "only" 33 MB, so there is some progress being made
there too :-)

On 6 April 2016 at 17:30, John A Meinel <email address hidden> wrote:
> I tried stripping my 1.6 based build, and it seems to be working. (Juju
> does reflection at init() time as part of some of the registries), so it
> seems safe to do. On the flip side it isn't amazingly better. It seems
> to be a bit less than 2:1. (73MB down to 40MB.) Almost certainly still
> worth it, just doesn't compensate for the 1:10 growth of the Juju binary
> itself over time.
>
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