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To promote my own tool, https://github.com/bradfitz/shotizam https://github.com/bradfitz/shotizam lets you drill down into why Go binaries are large without hav

To promote my own tool, https://github.com/bradfitz/shotizam https://github.com/bradfitz/shotizam lets you drill down into why Go binaries are large without having to make up terms like "dark bytes".

knz42 5y ago
This code, if I'm reading it right, uses the symbol table and ELF section headers. As explained in OP, the sum of sizes advertised in the symtable and ELF section headers does not add up to the final binary size. The shotizam tool is thus blind to that difference.
- nappy-doo 5y ago
  This sounds like a bug to me, not nefarious intent.
  - knz42 5y ago
    What in my reply suggests I assumed nefarious intent? Brad is a good person, it's the code we're talking about here.
arp242 5y ago
If physicists can have dark matter and dark energy, then why can't we have dark bytes? Why should we let the physicists have all the dark fun?
- saati 5y ago
  Because it's genuinely unknown what those are, figuring out what these bytes are is just a deep dive into the opensource go compiler at worst or just asking around on some go channels for much less effort.
  - arp242 5y ago
    You're taking a joke too serious :-)
cristaloleg 5y ago
Sadly it doesn't work with Go 1.16 :(( https://github.com/bradfitz/shotizam/issues/10 https://github.com/bradfitz/shotizam/issues/10
- bradfitz 5y ago
  Oh right :)