> Binary artifacts don't cause exponential growth in storage requirements. It's still just linear. I think what the author was getting at was the combinatoric

> Binary artifacts don't cause exponential growth in storage requirements. It's still just linear. I think what the author was getting at was the combinatoric explosion as you add different variants (CPU architecture, operating systems, python versions) - but I agree that "exponential growth" is not the right term to use here.