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Re:Tab completion in OpenBSD's ksh by majewsky on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:07PM (#14250603)
No matter how many of these lines you label as "fish" and "not-fish", they somehow all end up in "/usr/bin/fish".
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Re:Tab completion in OpenBSD's ksh by i80and on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:11PM (#14250650)
Well, not necessarily. The linker will strip out any symbols that aren't actually used, which may indeed be a non-inconsequential chunk of fish's bundled dependencies.
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Re:Tab completion in OpenBSD's ksh by eridius on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:11PM (#14250645)
That's not particularly meaningful. The author was making a statement about shell complexity by using lines of code, not making a statement about binary size. The fact that there's 113k CLOC of PCRE in there is pretty irrelevant to talking about the complexity of Fish itself.
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