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-Wall ain't all (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[-] qaz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I would love to use golang for this but it’s standard library alone is bigger than the amount of available RAM.

[-] gredo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting, since golang only includes the parts of the stdlib that are used in the executable binary.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I just tested it and a simple hello world program still produces a 1.7MiB binary, while the device only has 512KiB of RAM.

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Println("hello world")
}

[-] pipe01@lemmy.pipe01.net 3 points 1 year ago

Strip the debug info, should be a lot smaller. Also check out TinyGo, it's meant for embedded devices

[-] gredo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

BTW: what are you using instead to get small binaries/scripts?

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm currently using C++

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Likely your C++ implementation also doesn't ship the full standard library. And you may even turn off exceptions and RTTI.

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