From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20130323100519.GA3980@polynum.com> <19750d1b50c54941f031f57dc4be456e@proxima.alt.za> <5099C9E8-C6E8-4B6B-A609-B5BDCA6C332F@lsub.org> <5C91EC08-2559-4DA8-B6F3-9293747EEFE8@gmail.com> <20130323173739.GA3314@polynum.com> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:23:23 -0700 Message-ID: From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc not an option for Plan9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 31b830e6-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I'll happily pay the price of bigger binaries for things such as the %v format. I don't write hello, world that often, or even care about its size when I do. One demo we used to do for Unix was show we could write an executable program that was 2 bytes. It was cute. Did it matter, in the end? Not really. But we used to call 4k programs bloated. I have a hard time worrying about 1M binaries on $200 machines with 12 GB/s memory bandwidth and 4G memory. It's 2013. ron