I am trying to find the best way to diagnose why one of my Motoko wasm output files is huge I have tried wasm2wat to see if i could manually inspect it but i get the error 002919d: error: unexpected opcode: 0xc0, so thats not helpful It probably is one of my dependencies, but I am having to manual…

Replace your actor references with actor interfaces unless you are deploying the actor codebase.(And even then you may want to use a factory canister to generate those so you don’t have to import the actor). When you import the actor it puts the compiled wasm into your canister, so you get all the s…

Hmm. Also it might be good to know how imports work When i just have a commented out file and just have actor {} as code i get 126 KB file With uncommented just the import statements, with no actor code, i get 330 KB file With everything uncommented i get the over 2MB file Is this an import opti…

Seems with my specific issue is that I am including multiple actor classes which end up being ~500KB in size each. Made a new thread for that [image] Motoko actor class deployment options Motoko I have an issue where I have a few actor classes that I want to deploy from m…

Motoko WASM size diagnosing tips?

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