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Towards Automated Application-Specific Software Stacks
- chenglou 7y agoSo, language-agnostic dead code elimination by intercepting at much lower level? That’s great. How does it work with dynamic linking?
- etaioinshrdlu 7y agoSounds like the kind of thing that will break all the edge cases of your application! Unless you have perfect test coverage... But that's unlikely. Imagine you have an application that processes images and this tool decides to drop GIF format support. How will it really know what you need or don't need? The answer is likely that it just won't.