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Re:Why are my Go executable files so large? by ComputerGuru on Monday December 30, 2019 @03:42AM (#21911787)
They’re interpreted/JIT’d and not compiled like golang.
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Re:Why are my Go executable files so large? by pjmlp on Monday December 30, 2019 @03:51AM (#21911836)
They, have release and debug build modes.

.NET has AOT support since ever via NGEN, followed by Mono AOT, Xamarin,IL2CPP, Bartok, .NET Native and a couple of less know projects.

On Java side AOT has been always supported by JVMs for embedded deployments like Aonix (now part of PTC, PTC, Aicas, ExcelsiorJET, IBM J9.

And nowadays there is SubstrateVM as well, renamed recently as Graal Native Image, part of OpenJDK since Java 11.

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Re:Why are my Go executable files so large? by andor on Monday December 30, 2019 @08:02AM (#21913063)
Not entirely true with regards to the question.

Yes, Java is interpreted and JITed, but on the bytecode level. When compiling sources to bytecode, line number information is written to class files.

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