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A comment on Ask HN: Why do maintainers optimize for small binaries?.

Re:Ask HN: Why do maintainers optimize for small binaries? by nightfly on Thursday August 22, 2019 @09:49PM (#20773969)
Business logic isn't going to be a large part of a programs size. Most space is used by static resources likes images, lookup-tables, and libraries for handling the former. People aren't cutting out features from their CLI programs to save a couple kilobytes.
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Re:Ask HN: Why do maintainers optimize for small binaries? by nikisweeting on Friday August 23, 2019 @01:22PM (#20780000)
Caddy and Nginx are both examples of common tools that cut tons of useful modules to save kilobytes, both require recompiling to get that functionality.
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Re:Ask HN: Why do maintainers optimize for small binaries? by marcosdumay on Thursday August 22, 2019 @09:58PM (#20773993)
Hum... They are (specifically, cutting speed), as evidenced by the OP's link.

Not that it matters with the low number involved.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do maintainers optimize for small binaries? by wademealing on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:32PM (#20774327)
I might be missing the point here, but larger binaries are not always slower.
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