The paper Safe ICF in Gold[0] says that they get between 4 to 7% savings on code size. A safer version that omits functions that have their address taken was 97

The paper Safe ICF in Gold[0] says that they get between 4 to 7% savings on code size. A safer version that omits functions that have their address taken was 97% as effective. The talk Diet Templates[1] has some suggestions for how to reduce template bloat. [0] https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub36912 https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub36912 [1] https://accu.org/content/conf2011/Jonathan-Wakely-diet-templates.pdf https://accu.org/content/conf2011/Jonathan-Wakely-diet-templ... Edited to add the second paragraph.