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Re:The JVM is not that heavy by noselasd on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @03:47PM (#13544963)
I certainly agree that you don't need that for production machines.

However /usr/bin/gcc is just a frontend, and calls a slew of other binaries(such as cpp, collect2, cc1, normally found somewhere in /usr/libexec/gcc/). You also need binutils, and to be useful, likely headers for at least the standard C library.

The gcc + binutils package comes up at around 75MB on my machine.

Re:The JVM is not that heavy by makapuf on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:11AM (#13549166)
I stand corrected - duh of course I should have added called binaries. So it seems 100M is the right ballpark.