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Overview I built some tooling to extract details about the contents of a Go executable file, and a small D3 application to visualize this information interactively as zoomable tree maps. Here’s a static screenshot of how the app illustrates the size of the compiled code, in this example for a group modules in CockroachDB: The reason why I built this was to help me discover and learn what makes Go executable programs larger than I would expect....