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Yes, I'm not constrained in any way to not be able to run a 5 MB binary. I was curious if that was an indication of what is to come for large projects... I gue

• empath75 8y ago
  rust doesn't use dynamic linking, which contributes a lot to that size.
  • steveklabnik 8y ago
    It can, but for practical reasons, generally does not. For Rust code anyway; often anything bound via FFI is dynamically linked.
  • kingosticks 8y ago
    Wont a crate compiled with 'crate_type = "dylib"' be dynamically linked if you specify '-C prefer-dynamic' when compiling your program? https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/linkage.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/linkage.html
  • skolemtotem 8y ago
    This is pedantic, but rust does link dynamically, but only to libc.