Trim in publishing

[taooceros]

Question
Why don't we trim in publishing profile? In dotnet 5 environment, although it takes time to do the job, it can reduce the output size from 92MB to about 58MB

@JohnTheGr8 @jjw24

[jjw24]

That would be good to trim down the size, I just haven't had time to look into it

[JohnTheGr8]

Trimming is still experimental afaik.

Also, curiously, self-contained net5.0-windows output is actually larger than the netcoreapp3.1 equivalent: 84mb vs 78mb for the executable...

[taooceros]

Trimming is still experimental afaik.

Also, curiously, self-contained net5.0-windows output is actually larger than the netcoreapp3.1 equivalent: 84mb vs 78mb for the executable...

Maybe that is because of the large WinRT runtime. Around 26mb.

[taooceros]

hmmm seems that trimming break Flow to work as intended. Need more testing.

[jjw24]

A couple more suggestions to try, leaving it here for future reference:
https://ianqvist.blogspot.com/2018/01/reducing-size-of-self-contained-net.html

https://medium.com/@singhsukhpinder/how-to-reduce-net-core-app-size-90045757cd99

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48009976/optimizing-net-core-self-contained-deployment