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This is the joy of static linking! In the end does anyone really care if it’s a 10MB tarball versus a 330kb tarball?
by zaroth 4y ago
This is the joy of static linking!
In the end does anyone really care if it’s a 10MB tarball versus a 330kb tarball?
- 1over137 4y agoYes, many of us care.
- memco 4y agoYou care when you need to deploy stuff to remote servers the time difference between 10MB and 330kb. There’s also data transfer costs to consider. I never had a problem with how long it took to install dependencies until I had to do it multiple times over in quick succession.
- lapser 4y agoWhy wouldn't you upload the file to all the servers, and then deploy them all in succession, rather than upload and deploy in sequence?
- goodpoint 4y agoYes, very much so. Maintaining the security of OSes where many applications statically link thousands of dependencies is impossible.