On: Making Rust binaries smaller by default

[stefs]

Isn't that the linkers job? To throw away unused functions?

I remember this being the standard decades ago. It might not make sense in certain situations (i.e. with reflection), but that shouldn't be the default case anyway. What happened?

[pdimitar → stefs]

Yes, but I was left with the impression that including the stdlib in its entirety prevents proper tree-shaking / dead code elimination. Could be wrong.