Kirill Bulatov
9be65a8dfe
Not sure if this PR is 100% good, since it removes symbols from local traces, leaving addresses only — but this what Windows seem to do already, and we have those symbols on Sentry to restore from, which were needed to normally read Linux perf traces already (see `perf.zip` in https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/59689#issuecomment-5452720248) On the upside, uncompressed binaries' are now ~100MB less, which is a lot — hence decided to open the PR for the review ------------------- Strips debug info and local symbols from shipped macOS and Linux binaries, matching what Windows already does with PDBs: `bundle-mac` now always runs `dsymutil` before a new `strip -x` step, and `bundle-linux` adds `--discard-all` plus `zed.dbg`/`remote_server.dbg` extraction via `--only-keep-debug`. Sentry uploads are unchanged and precede stripping. The macOS binary UUID and the GNU build id survive stripping, so user-provided traces stay recoverable without rebuilding at the reporter's commit: `sample` output resolves via `atos` against the archived `zed.dwarf`, and `perf.data` via `perf buildid-cache` against the Sentry-archived binary. zed binary: macOS (2026-08-29 nightly): 420478976 -> 316503984 bytes (-24.7%, -104.0MB) Linux (v1.17.2 aarch64): 439417448 -> 336967256 bytes (-23.3%, -102.5MB) Downloads shrink far less, symbols compress ~7:1: the macOS DMG loses only ~15MB. Release Notes: - Improved installed size on macOS and Linux by stripping debug symbols from release binaries (roughly -25%)
Zed
Welcome to Zed, a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
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