[tor-bugs] #2915 [Tor Client]: Explore options to reduce binary size of Tor

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#2915: Explore options to reduce binary size of Tor
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 Reporter:  Sebastian    |          Owner:                    
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new               
 Priority:  minor        |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.3.x-final
Component:  Tor Client   |        Version:                    
 Keywords:               |         Parent:                    
   Points:               |   Actualpoints:                    
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Comment(by Sebastian):

 Thanks to Nick I have an easy patch here I believe. Also, it doesn't seem
 like using -gfull changes anything, so we should just go ahead and use
 dead-strip and be happy. That's good news, because it means we don't have
 to mess with the libs we build. With no libs statically linked, that's a
 3% win in binary size, with just libevent linked statically, this gives us
 an advantage of 5% in terms of binary size, and with libevent and openssl
 statically linked, we gain over 18% or over 500KB. If this works out OK,
 this could be pretty neat I think.

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