tektoncd/cli

Reduce the size of the binary

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#2,109 opened on Sep 1, 2023

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Description

As of today, tkn is a very big binary.

$ du bin/tkn
147M	bin/tkn
$ strip bin/tkn
$ du bin/tkn
118M	bin/tkn

We should try to find some ways to reduce the size of it somehow 👼🏼 🙏🏼. Some ideas:

  • Track tektoncd/pipeline deps and understand where we can limit pulling k8s.io ones
  • Have our own "struct" representing the types ? (generated)

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Research direction
Use `go tool nm` or `bloaty` to identify large symbols, then analyze dependencies to reduce unnecessary imports.
Tech stack
go
Domain
cli
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Performance
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2
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Half day
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Clear
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Go
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40