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You must know that breaking down and verifying someone else's analysis is more time consuming than writing your own. Just like dealing with a bug in another per
by harikb 6y ago
You must know that breaking down and verifying someone else's analysis is more time consuming than writing your own. Just like dealing with a bug in another person's code.
Given them the benefit of doubt that Go team is cautious about binary size. People have dug in to this. Sure, they could do a better job giving some breakdown, but claiming that they are careless deserves that kind of response.
Given a choice of their time, I would rather have them work on some other Go language problem. Most low hanging fruit has already been had. See [1] [2] [3]
[1] https://dave.cheney.net/2020/05/09/ensmallening-go-binaries-by-prohibiting-comparisons https://dave.cheney.net/2020/05/09/ensmallening-go-binaries-...
[2] https://dave.cheney.net/tag/performance https://dave.cheney.net/tag/performance
[3] https://dave.cheney.net/2016/04/02/go-1-7-toolchain-improvements https://dave.cheney.net/2016/04/02/go-1-7-toolchain-improvem...