[Fwd: Re: [go-nuts] Re: Generics false dichotomy]

[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 20 February 2014 at 20:26:40 UTC, Russel Winder 
wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 22:19 +0000, ponce wrote:
> […]
>> Granted code bloat is a real thing and you _might_ have 
>> instruction cache problems, but the problem only ever show 
>> itself
> […]
>
> Code bloat in what sense? Go is founded on static compilation 
> so as to
> avoid the dynamic library binding "problem". So executable are 
> 5 to
> 100MB which is code blat in my book. On the other hand they 
> don't have
> library versioning problems which is the bane of Posix.

Actually they do, as shown by the whole "go get" discussion and 
the current inability of Go's compiler to link against binary 
packages.

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Paulo