[treeshateorcs]

so, a helloworld program (`zig init`) is 9.3MB compiled. compared to `-Doptimize=ReleaseSmall` 7.6KB that is huge (more than 1000 times larger)

[AndyKelley]

Indeed, good observation. Another observation is that 82% of that is debug info.

-OReleaseSmall -fno-strip produces a 580K executable, while -ODebug -fstrip produces a 1.4M executable.

zig's x86 backend makes for a significantly better debugging experience with this zig-aware lldb fork: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/LLDB-for-Zig

I don't recall whether it supports stepping through comptime logic at the moment; that was something we discussed recently.

[treeshateorcs]

is it naive to expect the new backend to release -OReleaseSmall binaries as small as llvm in the future?