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On Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:37:48 +1100
Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> wrote:

> and included a smart linker that deleted library functions that were
> never called.

Mind-boggling to me how rare this has been over the decades. I suppose
there's an extent to which you need to be certain that a function won't
*ever* be invoked, but it's not like we haven't had call graph analysis
for aeons; take the worst-case what-if graph and strip out everything
that isn't on it, and presto.