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The KDB+ database has been around for 20 years. The executable is ~ 500kb. Enterprise software is gross.
by castathrowaway 8y ago
The KDB+ database has been around for 20 years.
The executable is ~ 500kb.
Enterprise software is gross.
- majewsky 8y ago> The executable is ~ 500kb. So... is this good or bad? A Hello World in Go is on the order of 2 MB. That doesn't say anything about code bloat, it just says that Go prefers static over dynamic linking.
- castathrowaway 8y agoThat 2 MB might be messier than you suggest. It seems like people close to the project spent time trying to clean it up: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6853 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6853