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Toolchain is excessively large

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
go
Domain
build-system, tooling

Research direction

Start by inspecting the toolchain image contents, especially the Go cache and the Go binaries under systemcore-aarch64-toolchain/lib. Determine which files the image build actually requires, then run the relevant image build to verify that removing unnecessary content does not break it. Done means the toolchain is smaller while its build remains functional.

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Description

Limelight Pending

There are a lot of unnecessary files included in the toolchain. One of the most egregious examples is the Go cache:
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One gigabyte out of 3.6 is spent on Go caches. 0.9 gigabytes is spent on various Go binaries under systemcore-aarch64-toolchain/lib. I'm not exactly sure how much is needed to build the image, but it definitely looks like there's opportunities to slim it down significantly.

Dominant language
Java
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Forks
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Avg merge
8h 27m
Merged PRs (30d)
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