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What bothers me more than the actual binary size (yes ok, the remaining 400 KBytes may actually be justified as pointed out by @lifthrasiir) is that the additio
by flohofwoe 3y ago
What bothers me more than the actual binary size (yes ok, the remaining 400 KBytes may actually be justified as pointed out by @lifthrasiir) is that the additional 3.5 MBytes baggage of stdlib debug info was just dead weight. They could just as well have included 3.5 MBytes of noise in each executable.
- dhruvrajvanshi 3y agoAs pointed out by the author, people who care could already strip the debug info. C was created in a time when binary sizes used to be important for every program. These days, it only matters for a small subset of use cases. If anything, the fact that no one fixed it for this long is an indicator that it doesn't matter much for the kinds of things people typically build with rust. It's nice that there's a fix now, but would I care if Firefox or Chrome binary was 4MB bigger?