[jeffbee]

After looking into the size of the CockroachDB binary, the magnitude of the plank in the author's eye becomes clear. This iceberg is ridiculously bloated. Much of the space is coming from the static data of geographic projections that, I assume, basically nobody needs. This includes a single init function that is 1.4MB of machine code from 6MB of auto-generated source code. Then there's the entire AWS SDK, with a static definition of every service AWS offers, by name, and in what regions, by name. Nevermind the Azure SDK. There are three implementations of protocol buffers in here: gogo in Go and Google's in both Go and C++. There are at least four SQL parsers in here, including vitess's and another one for crdb in Go.

Last but by no means least there are in total 13MB of autogenerated functions of the colexec package, each of which is over 100KB long, which are autogenerated and share virtually all of their code. These are an obscene waste of code space and undoubtedly de-deuplicating this code would not just reduce code size but also speed up the program, due to icache trashing.