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Re:Rust Dependencies Scare Me by stevenhuang on Saturday May 10, 2025 @08:27AM (#43945092)
When talking about LTO we don't expect it to be removing code used in runtime. Such code is not dead code, by definition.

If you want to disable certain runtime features, you'd do so with feature flags.

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Re:Rust Dependencies Scare Me by whstl on Saturday May 10, 2025 @10:11AM (#43945778)
Sure, but I'm talking about bloat in libraries that don't get LTO'd. If there are no feature flags and no plugin functionality, LTO can't do its job. There are plenty of non-core libraries like this.
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