> Is it really though? 2mb is practically nothing on modern machines. In general, I agree actually. I think hemming and hawing over duplicated shared libraries

> Is it really though? 2mb is practically nothing on modern machines. In general, I agree actually. I think hemming and hawing over duplicated shared libraries in particular makes no sense for most modern systems. Still, 2MB is a pretty damn big overhead to put on every binary the way Go does. Not that it isn't a considered trade off or anything, I'm just saying. > And full-fat debug should have as much info as it can, why optimize it unless you're spitting out 400+mb binaries or something crazy. That's my point: there's no optimization in the full-fat debug and it does contain everything it can and it's still a little more than half the size of a completely empty Go binary. 2MB is huge. For the ReleaseFast version all I did was tell the compiler to optimize for speed and otherwise put no effort into making anything size efficient.