To be fair, they worked at Google, their engineering decisions are not normal. They might just decide that 25 GiB binaries are worth a 0.25% speedup at start ti

To be fair, they worked at Google, their engineering decisions are not normal. They might just decide that 25 GiB binaries are worth a 0.25% speedup at start time, potentially resulting in tens of millions of dollars' worth of difference. Nobody should do things the way Google does, but it's interesting to think about.