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For comparison: GNU coreutils ls 9.4 is 139 KiB on my system. BusyBox v1.36.1 is 2.1 MiB and has 272 tools which is just about 7.6 KiB per tool, so when it com
by weinzierl 3mo ago
For comparison: GNU coreutils ls 9.4 is 139 KiB on my system.
BusyBox v1.36.1 is 2.1 MiB and has 272 tools which is just about 7.6 KiB per tool, so when it comes to space efficiency BusyBox is probably hard to beat.
The (probably statically linked) 9base-6 Plan 9 ls is 961 KiB.
- Narishma 3mo agoNot a fair comparison because it only implements a small subset of the GNU ls functionality.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3mo ago> BusyBox v1.36.1 is 2.1 MiB and has 272 tools which is just about 7.6 KiB per tool, so when it comes to space efficiency BusyBox is probably hard to beat. GNU coreutils is also quite happy to build itself all into a single binary. On a sample NixOS box, this binary is 1.5M and lists 106 tools (although that number should be read with a grain of salt since it's at least double listing [ and test).