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1. mc (mc@hackers.town)'s status on Saturday, 26-Mar-2022 12:27:54 UTC mc

   Impressed by speed. Compiled Embedded Go's patches to the Go compiler. The whole thing built in 207 second my work laptop!

   Not that impressed with binary size, though. A simple blink LED program for Siped Maix Bit (riscv64) took 1.5 MiB.

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   • Seachaint :verified: (seachaint@hackers.town)'s status on Saturday, 26-Mar-2022 12:28:17 UTC Seachaint :verified:

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     @mc It was the impractical binary size that put me off. I offered some patches to shave 0.5Mb off most real-world binaries by removing unnecessary "fmt" imports from lots of common stdlib imports like json, and was rejected. I lost interest at that point..

     If you feel like complicating things for the sake of 0.5Mb or so, I could point you at a halfassed set of patched libraries from probably ten versions ago. :)

     It's actually pretty easy to do, because most stdlib imports of fmt are just for error logging, and the native error module achieves the same ends with drastically smaller binary size.

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   • mc (mc@hackers.town)'s status on Saturday, 26-Mar-2022 12:29:06 UTC mc

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     • Seachaint :verified:

     @seachaint I might be interested in that. Thanks!

     Were you also compiling with GOOS=noos? Or was this targeting something with an operating system?

     I would really like to be able to fit my program in 128 kiB, but no chance of that, right?

   • mc (mc@hackers.town)'s status on Saturday, 26-Mar-2022 12:29:06 UTC mc

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     • Seachaint :verified:

     @seachaint I tried again without including any modules at all. No import statement. Still 1,4 MiB. If you have any way to shave bytes off that I would be very grateful.

     Did you change the Go runtime?