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> (no one does this! it’s got a heap-size from the 80s!) Shouldn't the devs do this? We're in 2024, embedded systems have more RAM, IO, etc than anything from
by oblio 3y ago
> (no one does this! it’s got a heap-size from the 80s!)
Shouldn't the devs do this? We're in 2024, embedded systems have more RAM, IO, etc than anything from the 80s.
- benreesman 3y agoThe, uh, GNU folks, are a little conservative in some ways that surprise the mainstream developers. But there are always flags for it. Well, except stupid-ass dynamic-linking of `glibc`.
- oblio 3y ago> are a little conservative in some ways that surprise the mainstream developers Conservative is one thing, but having the default be something that's detrimental to 99.999% of your users in 99.95% of situations feels like bad defaults/design, not being conservative. My worthless 2 eurocents :-)
- estebank 3y agoYou would think that it would dynamically check the system on first run and set appropriate defaults.