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Performance,startup time and memory usage matter more in terminal apps than almost anywhere else.That's why people react strongly to this.

• orf 5mo ago
  Why does the on-disk size matter for any of that?
  • skydhash 5mo ago
    More code to load from disk to memory, and while it may be fast, it’s not instantaneous.
    • orf 5mo ago
      SSDs can read at gigabytes per second, and only the used portions are paged into memory. Anything else?
      • skydhash 5mo ago
        Loading a program in memory is much more complicated than raw disk transfer speed.
        • orf 5mo ago
          So you’re saying that if you append 1GB of junk data to the end of an executable it would be slower to execute? No? So it’s not purely a function of disk size.
  • ykurtov 5mo ago
    Because it will load into RAM. And RAM cost money. Also, quite hard to upgrade on the laptop
    • orf 5mo ago
      The entire executable isn’t loaded into RAM. And are laptops a primary deployment target?