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Optimizing output .js size: using createExportWrapper with no assertions
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While looking at produced .js files for Pyodide ([pyodide.asm.js](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/pyodide/v0.17.0/full/pyodide.asm.js), 1.78 MB total, 293kB compressed) a lot of the size seems to be due to this function definition for each symbol,
https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/blob/e77adf8a3a79e79b666dce6d7ad0d6d3b9e94b20/emscripten.py#L671-L674
in part because the mangled name can be quite long and it's repeated 4 times there.
Would it make sense to use an equivalent of `createExportWrapper` instead as done a few lines above?
https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/blob/e77adf8a3a79e79b666dce6d7ad0d6d3b9e94b20/emscripten.py#L659-L661
or even
```
/** @type {function(...*):?} */
var %(mangled)s = createExportWrapper("%(name)s", Module);
''' % {'mangled': mangled, 'name': name})
```
where `createExportWrapper` is currently defined only when assertions = true. I'm not saying to use `createExportWrapper` exactly but an equivalent simpler function with no assertions. Unless there is a reason the current solution is preferable? Thanks!
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