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Re:Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead ... by g82918 on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:55PM (#19176732)
>For the smallest, false is 48k statically linked vs 32k for the Ubuntu binary.

Lol, you have to do some kind of stripping or GC sections or what not for this to be a fair comparison. A proper version of false is 508bytes on my machine.

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Re:Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead ... by aidenn0 on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @09:40PM (#19268617)
The help message for gnu coreutils false is 613 bytes...
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