I feel stupid that I did not realise this. I am a big fan of crunched binaries, actually. That guy at U of Maryland who introduced it to BSD in the early 90's is a software hero in my book. For Linux fans, I guess your hero would be Bruce Perens or whoever was behind Busybox.
Anyway I've learned something more about git from admitting my error. Thank you HN!
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a 230MB executable is no fun.. it needs to be read from disk to be executed, and bigger code means worse cache use (for instructions) when running.
It's 115 links to a 2 MB executable. The actual on-disk size is 2 MB.
Right.
I feel stupid that I did not realise this. I am a big fan of crunched binaries, actually. That guy at U of Maryland who introduced it to BSD in the early 90's is a software hero in my book. For Linux fans, I guess your hero would be Bruce Perens or whoever was behind Busybox.
Anyway I've learned something more about git from admitting my error. Thank you HN!
You know what's funny? I made the same mistake a year or two ago. :)