FRIGN <d...@frign.de> writes: > Yes, that's a point. Go implements GC and other stuff in the binary, > which blows its size up a lot. > However, if we take the Hello-World-program as the lowest common > denominator, we could calculate, that if we ported all basic tools in > sbase (currently 70) to the Go language, the compiled binaries would > need around 100MB-200MB _after_ stripping unnecessary stuff from it (as > explained earlier).
A solution to this is to implement the GC (and other runtime parts) as a dynamic library. This code would also be shared in memory by all running Go processes. (I do not use Go myself, but in the Haskell world we have a similar issue - my current project compiles to a statically linked 53MiB binary, although this is admittedly with profiling support included.) -- \ Troels /\ Henriksen
