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> Rust emits unreasonable amount of debug information. It's so freakishly large, I expect it's just a bug.

Rust relies on the linker (via -ffunction-sections and -gc-sections) to delete functions that aren't ever used but the linker isn't capable of removing the corresponding debug info.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/56068




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