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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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When I compiled that program, the executable was around 10MB. I wrote the same program in C, and the executable was 15kB. That's about 3 orders of magnitude difference. Is Rust really 1000 times better than C? :-)
Rust turns a lot of safety things 'on' by default.
Turning all of that off for a tiny program that doesn't need it such as hello world results in a comparable size.
This is a good talk on rust
https://youtu.be/VlSkZYBeK8Q
And this one goes over size reduction
https://youtu.be/b2qe3L4BX-Y
Thanks for the resources. I'm old school, and so far haven't really looked into Rust; I look forward to watching the talk you linked to.
this is not due to safety but rather std. Set opt level to 3 and enable fat lto