/go-binary-sizes

Primary LanguageMakefile

Go 'Hello, World!' binary sizes

This is just a small experiment how the size of Go program can be reduced.

  • the -upx suffix means that the binary was compressed with UPX.
  • the -max suffix means that the binary was compressed with UPX using the slowest and most efficient compression.
  • the -tinygo suffix means that the binary was compiled with TinyGo.
  • the -trim suffix means that the Go binary was stripped of debug information.
file Go Go UPX Go UPX max Go no-debug Go no-debug UPX Go no-debug UPX max TinyGo TinyGo UPX TinyGo UPX max
print 1.5M 950K 817K 957K 434K 351K 117K 50K 45K
fmtprint 2.1M 1.3M 1.1M 1.4M 604K 485K 630K 232K 190K
hellohttp 7.2M 4.3M 3.6M 4.9M 2.1M 1.6M 2.2M 650K 507K

Used versions

  • go version go1.23.2 linux/amd64
  • tinygo version 0.34.0 linux/amd64 (using go version go1.23.2 and LLVM version 18.1.2)
  • upx 4.2.4