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2025-09-09cmd/tailscaled: add disabled debug file to force reflect for binary size ↵Brad Fitzpatrick1-0/+26
experiments This adds a file that's not compiled by default that exists just to make it easier to do binary size checks, probing what a binary would be like if it included reflect methods (as used by html/template, etc). As an example, once tailscaled uses reflect.Type.MethodByName(non-const-string) anywhere, the build jumps up by 14.5 MB: $ GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 ./tool/go build -tags=ts_include_cli,ts_omit_webclient,ts_omit_systray,ts_omit_debugeventbus -o before ./cmd/tailscaled $ GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 ./tool/go build -tags=ts_include_cli,ts_omit_webclient,ts_omit_systray,ts_omit_debugeventbus,ts_debug_forcereflect -o after ./cmd/tailscaled $ ls -l before after -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 bradfitz staff 41011861 Sep 9 07:28 before -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 bradfitz staff 55610948 Sep 9 07:29 after This is particularly pronounced with large deps like the AWS SDK. If you compare using ts_omit_aws: -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 bradfitz staff 38284771 Sep 9 07:40 no-aws-no-reflect -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 bradfitz staff 45546491 Sep 9 07:41 no-aws-with-reflect That means adding AWS to a non-reflect binary adds 2.7 MB but adding AWS to a reflect binary adds 10 MB. Updates #17063 Updates #12614 Change-Id: I18e9b77c9cf33565ce5bba65ac5584fa9433f7fb Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>