> Yes but when running a long-lived application on a lot of data it's typically important to keep the executable small both so it can be "hot" and to leave more

> Yes but when running a long-lived application on a lot of data it's typically important to keep the executable small both so it can be "hot" and to leave more room for data. Who really runs server applications these days where data/rss are not a large multiple of the actual code segments? People happily run JVM server processes these days, how much code/data do you think that pulls in just to start up?