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1.5 MB for a stub binary which does nothing but load and call a symbol from another file seems a little excessive in its own right.
by duskwuff 4y ago
1.5 MB for a stub binary which does nothing but load and call a symbol from another file seems a little excessive in its own right.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 4y agoAgreed. Strangely discussions of bloat sometimes trigger snarky replies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34732782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34732782
- preseinger 4y agobloated is relative and subjective but the only context where an 11MB binary could be considered bloated is embedded hard to take seriously the idea that 11MB is bloated in a normal linux server or user desktop environment
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 4y agoIf the program in intended by me to run on a small form factor computer with limited storage, such as a router, then the program nearly doubling in size is going to draw attention.
- mihaip 4y agoThe main binary also contains Tailscale’s GUI (onboarding, auth, menu, notifications, etc) so it does a little more than that.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- duped 4y agoThat's pretty normal for statically linked executables unless you're aggressively stripping and removing things (which is hard to do)