Production profile for better performance (#804)

* Production profile for better performance

* Update CHANGELOG.md

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Build
       if: matrix.os == 'windows-latest' || matrix.os == 'macos-latest'
-      run: cargo build --release --locked
+      run: cargo build --profile production --locked
 
     - name: Build static binary
       if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
@@ -78,6 +78,6 @@ jobs:
       uses: svenstaro/upload-release-action@v1-release
       with:
         repo_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        file: target/release/${{ matrix.artifact_name }}
+        file: target/production/${{ matrix.artifact_name }}
         asset_name: ${{ matrix.asset_name }}
         tag: ${{ github.ref }}

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
 - Fix the `proj_tags` cmd list under Vim. #796
 - No syntax highlight for `c` preview. #800
 
+## Improved
+
+- Better performance for the pre-built binary. #804
+
 ## Changed
 
 - Set `g:clap_builtin_fuzzy_filter_threshold` to `0` to always use the async `on_typed` implementation which is full-featured using the Rust backend.

Cargo.toml

@@ -18,3 +18,13 @@ maple_cli = { path = "crates/maple_cli" }
 
 [build-dependencies]
 built = { package = "built", version = "0.5", features = ["git2"] }
+
+[profile.production]
+inherits = "release"
+
+# Sacrifice compile speed for execution speed by using optimization flags:
+
+# https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustc/linker-plugin-lto.html
+lto = "fat"
+# https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustc/codegen-options/index.html#codegen-units
+codegen-units = 1

ci/build_static_binary.sh

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
+PROFILE=production
+
 # Install Docker
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common
@@ -10,9 +12,9 @@ sudo apt-get install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
 docker --version
 
 docker pull clux/muslrust
-docker run -v $PWD:/volume --rm -t clux/muslrust cargo build --release --locked
+docker run -v $PWD:/volume --rm -t clux/muslrust cargo build --profile $PROFILE --locked
 
 mkdir -p target/release
-sudo cp target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/release/maple target/release/maple
+sudo cp target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/$PROFILE/maple target/$PROFILE/maple
 
-./target/release/maple version
+./target/$PROFILE/maple version