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I, too, found it kind of odd. The bulk of the savings they achieved came from dropping support for the Chromium browser (since Chromium no longer relies on WebKit) and C++ 11. This was a really bizarre article because it had a lot of details about how to reduce the size of a C++ binary but not what that actually means to performance.

What did that 6% binary size reduction buy them in startup time? 10ms? 300ms?

What about memory consumption after startup?

Did tests indicate that the memory locality had improved CPU performance in noticeable manner?