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Spoken like someone who doesn't know/remember using a slow connection...
by forgotmypw 7y ago
Spoken like someone who doesn't know/remember using a slow connection...
- andoriyu 7y agoIt doesn't matter what you or I remember. When we talking about optimizing _binaries_ for size, we're talking about saving kilobytes maybe a megabyte or two. That has no effect on how long it takes to download it, but help with: - Less dependencies to follow - Maybe even benefit from instruction cache - Shorter compile times - People don't laugh at you when you have half gigabyte of binaries to start an rds instance and create a user in it. (wtf hashicorp?) - Smaller attack surface - Som now started to target WASM as secondary target and then suddenly it's not web, but also web
- nikisweeting 7y agoI grew up on <1mbps internet and still managed to download 8k+ mp3s and hundreds of movies. It was slow going, but my expectations were low given that's all the bandwidth I'd ever had, so I wasn't frustrated by it until I tried 20mbps one day.
- enkiv2 7y ago<1mbps is still broadband. Folks are stuck with 24.4k still, over noisy radio signals or unmaintained copper lines.