Shrink release binary with size-tuned profile#98
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strip + thin LTO + opt-level=z cuts the darwin-arm64 binary 9.35 MB -> 5.84 MB raw (-37%), 3.63 MB -> 2.64 MB zipped (-27%). Binary verified working; release build time unchanged (~2m).
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Benchmarks (macOS arm64, 4000-package npm lockfile, 15 runs, median): profile size deps scan deps graph default release 9.80 MB 26 ms 65 ms strip + thin LTO 8.16 MB 31 ms 67 ms + opt-level "s" 7.04 MB 86 ms 76 ms + opt-level "z" 6.13 MB 105 ms 84 ms strip + thin LTO takes half the size win at no measurable runtime cost. opt-level=z bought 2 MB more but made the serde-heavy deps scan path ~4x slower, and would hit the deflate repo-upload path in `corgea scan` hardest. Addresses the PR #98 review comment.
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strip + thin LTO cuts the darwin-arm64 binary 9.35 MB -> 7.78 MB raw (-17%), 3.61 MB -> 3.25 MB zipped (-10%). Binary verified working.
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opt-level = "z"(-37% raw), but benchmarks showed it makes the serde-heavydeps scanpath ~4x slower, and the deflate repo-upload path incorgea scanis the same class of code. Dropped it; details in the review thread.deps scan(4,000-pkg lockfile, median of 15)strip+lto = "thin"(this PR)opt-level = "s"opt-level = "z"