Yes, I get that; I am curious what goes into a binary with 300 MB of code in it.
I repro here some data, there is a bit more in the paper:
Clang 1.9k Files, 217MB (-g0), 3554MB (-g) Chromium 17.8k Files 706MB (-g0), 7544MB (-g) Ad Delivery 13.8k Files 1073MB (-g0), 7469MB (-g)
(this is the number of object file that are participating in the link).
Ah, that would probably be it.