Serious question: Is upx worth the tradeoff in 2022?

Trying to decide if it's worth working into the containers that I maintain.

I totally understand removing annotations in the DWARF tables since they're not really needed in a production environment, but why would you want to remove stack traces? They provide invaluable information in a production system, and removing them increases the start up time with negligible difference.

In reality you'll tell whatever deployment system to deploy your binary/container, and you'll just wait until it's done. In such cases, 150ms won't make a difference in the grand scheme of things due to other systems such as your CI and other things in your pipeline.

That article is about -s -w and goupx.

goupx is not necessary after go 1.6. https://github.com/pwaller/goupx#update-20160310