Dan Price writes:
> I'm not personally interested in limiting the whole community to OS/Net,
> but I freely admit to my own ignorance of the "gardening" practices beyond
> ON.  As an example, I'd consider perfectly in-scope such bugs as:
> 
> 6302921 lu tools are 4MB overweight on x86, thanks to ILD carbs.

This one's somewhat likely (at least in part) to be due to a
pernicious practice of initializing everything in sight, rather than
relying on the goodness of .bss.

For what it's worth, there's likely quite a bit of library-related
clean-up in the Install gate for someone who is so inclined.  A lot of
the gate still uses static libraries rather than dynamic and thus has
a fair amount of object code duplication.

Unfortunately, the one you're citing can't really be part of the
community effort, and thus doesn't apply here.  LU itself is stuck as
closed source.

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