From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3182 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Spencer Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: go support (was: Best place to discuss other lightweight libraries?) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:37:36 +0200 Message-ID: <5177E020.9000706@barfooze.de> References: <1366683267.18069.155@driftwood> <5176FE83.3010301@gentoo.org> <20130424114852.GA99797@intma.in> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366810671 20780 80.91.229.3 (24 Apr 2013 13:37:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:37:51 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3186-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Apr 24 15:37:55 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 1UUztQ-0000KU-KU for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:37:52 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 3512 invoked by uid 550); 24 Apr 2013 13:37:51 -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 3504 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2013 13:37:51 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110221 SUSE/3.1.8 Mail/1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130424114852.GA99797@intma.in> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3182 Archived-At: On 04/24/2013 01:48 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 01:18:43PM +0200, Daniel Cegiełka wrote: >> >> btw. has anyone used go with musl? >> > > Go ships its own libc, which I'm fairly certain it depends on. It's > also not suitable as a system programming language and they dropped that > claim from their propaganda some time ago. 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.