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DevTools is an order-of-magnitude too big #4791
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Definitely some improvement recently:
$ du -sh xcodebuild/ReleaseX64/dart-sdk/bin/resources/devtools/ 46M xcodebuild/ReleaseX64/dart-sdk/bin/resources/devtools/@elliette could we use the dart2js code size tools your interns worked on to investigate this? Could be a good reason to productionize the work and dogfood our own tools.
Reacted by Ben Konyiwe might be able to make this smaller by removing more unused perfetto files
90M is way too much relative to the complexity of DevTool's feature set. It should more more like 3-4MB.
For comparison, Observatory, which has a feature set of roughly the same complexity, is more than an order-of-magnitude smaller, and Observatory itself should be at least a MB smaller if not for all the compatibility cruft handling when Polymer and Custom Elements were broken.
For comparison, Hopscotch, with a slightly smaller feature set but containing its own tests, source code and a compiler, is only 3MB.
This looks like a good opportunity for DevTools to dogfood its own size analysis tools.