From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3189 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kurt H Maier Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Re: go support (was: Best place to discuss other lightweight libraries?) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:33:56 -0400 Message-ID: <20130424163356.GA6149@intma.in> References: <1366683267.18069.155@driftwood> <5176FE83.3010301@gentoo.org> <20130424114852.GA99797@intma.in> <5177E020.9000706@barfooze.de> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366821245 19259 80.91.229.3 (24 Apr 2013 16:34:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:34:05 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3193-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Apr 24 18:34:09 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UV2e0-00080g-UL for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:34:09 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 15451 invoked by uid 550); 24 Apr 2013 16:34:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 15443 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2013 16:34:07 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5177E020.9000706@barfooze.de> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3189 Archived-At: On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:37:36PM +0200, John Spencer wrote: > > correct, the go runtime is *very* heavy, and it's always linked statically. > this adds ~ 1.5MB to any binary (at least on x86_64). > that's about equivalent to the bloat imposed by the C++ stdlib. > > on the suckless page, there's something written about plans to migrate > the coreutils functionality to go, this seems like an insane plan if > even dead-simple tools like cat will eat 1.5 MB of your RAM and storage > space. > Without getting into why none of that is true, the primary problem with go as a systems language is the memory management. khm