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A fully self-contained natively compiled C# Hello World, including GC and everything can be as small as ~440 kB (twitter.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just don't get the obsession with small executable file sizes. 100 MB here and there hasn't mattered at all in desktop development for many years. Feels like arbitrary goals set up just to be able to say "look there are still uses for [unmanaged language]". And of course there are, but a 60 MB smaller executables on a desktop with several terabytes of storage just isn't one of them. And no, developer, about to comment about how you've only got 5 millibits of storage on your embedded system, we're not talking about that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Simple, larger binaries = more time to load into memory. Why over complicate things that could've been made way simpler?