I am writing a GUI using a TFT display and the Adafruit GFX library and its default font on Arduino Nano. I want to be memory efficient and I assumed that the 'optimise for size' default setting of the compiler would not compile and include all functions from all included libraries if those functions are never called in the sketch.

However I was reading this memory management guide which advises (on pager 20) to remove 'unused libraries' and 'unused functions' from your sketch to save memory. So I have 2 related questions:

1. Does the Arduino IDE compiler will include all the compiled binary from these library functions even if they are never called in the source sketch (I know that any global variables in a library will take space even if unused but I am specifically asking about unused functions)?

2. If that is the case would making my own modified, trimmed down, version of the standard libraries save space?

Thanks.

I am writing a GUI using a TFT display and the Adafruit GFX library and its default font on Arduino Nano. I want to be memory efficient and I assumed that the 'optimise for size' default setting of the compiler would not compile and include all functions from all included libraries if those functions are never called in the sketch.

However I was reading this memory management guide which advises (on pager 20) to remove 'unused libraries' and 'unused functions' from your sketch to save memory. So I have 2 related questions:

1. Does the Arduino IDE compiler include all the compiled binary from these library functions even if they are never called in the source sketch (I know that any global variables in a library will take space even if unused but I am specifically asking about unused functions)?

2. If that is the case would making my own modified, trimmed down, version of the standard libraries save space?

Thanks.