On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:14:48 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> I did a test with Memory::Usage, that reports the
> interpreter's virtual memory size as 22MB. Seems cheap
> to me. 

Depends: It is not cheap compared to the whopping < 10 KB
executable size and < 200 byte of VSZ that suckless init[1] 
cashes in on. Also, it's not really about memory footprint, 
it's about complexity which comes at a cost. 

After all, that's one important reason why sensible people 
refuse to have systemd for PID1: Nobody in his right mind 
places a highly complex MB-sized blob at the most prominent 
position of the process tree.

[1] When statically linked with musl-libc. Sinit is an only
    slightly enhanced version of Felker's minimal init.

Regards
Urban

-- 
 […] we have to keep it crisp, disentangled and simple if we 
 refuse to be crushed by the complexities of our own making.
   -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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