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Binaries in distributed extension are unstripped #4482

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@iavael

Binaries in github.vscode-codeql/distribution2/codeql/** are unstripped which significantly increase size extension package.
For example, on linux stripping (with strip --strip-unneede) ELF binaries in this directory significantly decreases its size from 1.1 GiB to 660 MiB

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  1. jketema commented on Aug 26, 2026

    @jketema

    We've made some improvements, which will be part of CodeQL 2.27.0. The improvements save close to 300 MiB. Running strip --strip-unneeded might have a negative impact on crash reports, so we didn't want to go that far.

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