ziglang binary sizes by compiler option test

zig-binary-sizes.md

Zig Binary Sizes by Compiler Option

Testing binary sizes created by zig on an alpine linux using zig built from its master branch.

$ ls -l release* | sort -n -k4 | awk '{ printf("%21s %8d bytes\n", $NF, $5);}'
        releaseSmall    13696 bytes
releaseFast-stripped   186496 bytes
releaseSafe-stripped   224096 bytes
         releaseFast  1835368 bytes
         releaseSafe  1911648 bytes
        releaseDebug  2037144 bytes

releaseSmall is automatically stripped.