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Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS

by Mihai Parparita tailscale.com published 2023-02-16

Tailscale v1.36 for macOS features a significantly reduced binary size (going from 92MB to 56MB). The effort started out with a chance observation about a surprisingly large executable, and ended up involving some creative approaches using dlopen.

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