diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b15eb93..de76167 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -66,16 +66,17 @@ declaration, for example. With the `-tiny` flag, even more information is stripped from the Go binary. Position information is removed entirely, rather than being obfuscated. Runtime code which prints panics, fatal errors, and trace/debug info is removed. -All in all, this can make binaries 2-5% smaller. +Many symbol names are also omitted from binary sections at link time. +All in all, this can make binaries about 15% smaller. With this flag, no panics or fatal runtime errors will ever be printed, but they can still be handled internally with `recover` as normal. In addition, the `GODEBUG` environmental variable will be ignored. Note that this flag can make debugging crashes harder, as a panic will simply -exit the entire program without printing a stack trace, and all source code -positions are set to line 1. Similarly, `garble reverse` is generally not useful -in this mode. +exit the entire program without printing a stack trace, and source code +positions and many names are removed. +Similarly, `garble reverse` is generally not useful in this mode. ### Speed