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

[Russel Winder]

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.

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