Jolt's GENERATE_DEBUG_SYMBOLS option defaults to ON and injects -g in
every config, so the Release binary carried ~44MB of DWARF sections
(.debug_info/.debug_line/...) from Jolt TUs alone -- 80% of the 55MB
exe. Force the option OFF for Release builds only (the vendored
submodule is untouched; Debug/RelWithDebInfo keep symbols).
Measured: 55.0MB -> 11.3MB, .text unchanged at 8.5MB, zero debug
sections left. The remaining ~1.6MB is the ELF symtab, useful for
crash stacks; plain strip takes it to 9.7MB if a distributable is
needed.
Engine-layer SceneSerializer (yaml-cpp submodule): entities/components
to versioned YAML, atomic clear-and-rebuild on load with per-entity
fault tolerance, missing-field defaults, unknown-component skip and
UUID dedup. Asset references are {Guid, Path} pairs resolved through
the new AssetManager GUID registry (assets/asset_registry.yaml) with
path fallback; procedural:// pseudo-paths rebuild from parameters.
Editor File menu gets Save/Load Scene modals; app re-resolves stale
entity handles via onSceneLoaded callback.