Are the std/runtime .so's even versioned? How do you manage that? Every time I'm feeling like finally being in $PARADISE out of the .so dependency $VERYVERYHOTPLACE there comes along the demand to go back. Sigh. ;)
On Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 9:26:51 PM UTC+1 bobj...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm glad to see this issue getting some discussion. I have 100+ smallish > utility programs written in Go, and each one consumes about 1.5 MB (precise > average: 1,867,844 bytes); my bin directory contains 100+ copies of the Go > runtime. Sadly, I mainly use Windows, and there seems to be no way to use > linked libraries in Go for Windows. > > My solution has been to rewrite many of my smallish Go programs in Python > (except those that really need Go's speed) -- 10K each vs. 1.5M each disk > storage. For these manually invoked utilities, the speed difference is > often not noticeable. And the number of source lines and overall program > complexity is reduced by roughly 30%. (Added benefit: the Python programs > are always properly indented, even without a "pyfmt" program :-) > > I *am* a Go fan, and I understand that Go's mission is for writing big > server programs, but it's too bad that the size of a small Go program > executable is *many* times larger than a small C program. > On Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 9:49:17 AM UTC-8 jlfo...@berkeley.edu > wrote: > >> The discussion of SSD wear and tear is going way off my original >> question. I'm sorry I even mentioned it. >> Can we drop it? >> >> I'm still interested in the answer to the original question, which we've >> made some progress in answering. >> As of now the answer is yes, subject to some permission and performance >> problems. I hope the experts >> can shed some light on these. >> >> Cordially, >> Jon Forrest >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/d8f98822-c541-4508-b24c-c4a5596b160an%40googlegroups.com.
