On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:49:07 +0100 Troels Henriksen <at...@sigkill.dk> wrote:
> 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. Well, I tried that and it worked. The Hello-World-binary is around 19KB then. However, then the point of discussion, namely static binaries, is lost. > (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.) 53M is a lot! Well, I think it's time for buying another external hard-drive for all your Haskell-binaries :P. Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN <d...@frign.de>