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Update Producers Section to match #93 #100
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Most of the deleted content I think is still useful at capturing intent for toolchains who do find this section useful. In particular, size-optimizing toolchains (like Emscripten) are likely to strip the section, but less size-conscious toolchains should still feel encouraged to support it.
I personally feel like the phrasing of "size-optimizing toolchains" isn't quite right here because the Rust toolchain, for example, is (as always) size optimizing yet we intend to continue to emit the producers section by default. There are other examples of "useless in production" sections being emitted by default by toolchains such as the It seems like it'd be unfortunate to get into a situation where everyone's code-golfing how small their wasm can be to the point where very useful information is being stripped for a proportionally larger loss of functionality. |
I feel like the size comment had value. I think it depends on which level of the tools we focus on. That is, I can see how Rust may not want to make any decision at all about the producers section, and just leave it to later tools. For a complete toolchain though, like say emcc, which does not assume any tool will run after it, it does make sense to strip the producers section by default for size (and information leakage) reasons. |
Happy to let someone else take over this PR and put the wording just right from a producer's perspective. |
As discussed in #93/comment and the recent CG meeting.