The Growing WASI-Size Questions

I have taken a break from the series on Embedded WebAssembly to take a look at a change in the WASI-SDK. Back in July 2024, WASI-SDK 23 was released. This release dramatically increased the size of the resulting *.wasm file, increasing it a whopping 1029%. This is because WASI-SDK 23 turned on debug information by default. If you are linking against WASI Lib-C there is no way to turn this off. The…