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

[ponce]

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.

I meant it in the sense of actual slowdown related to binary 
size, or impossibility to fit a program on some embedded hardware.