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Re:Deadcode: Finding unreachable functions in Go by icholy on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @07:18PM (#39111907)
Apologies, I misread your comment. But can you elaborate on your statement that tree-shaking (more commonly referred to as dead-code-elimination) is no longer required?
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Re:Deadcode: Finding unreachable functions in Go by mschuster91 on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @03:46AM (#39115120)
Tree shaking was mostly a thing invented in the NodeJS ecosystem for websites to save transfer traffic and thus lead to faster page loads, as well as save a bit of RAM.

Even budget phones routinely have more than 4GB of RAM, and high-speed Internet access is the norm, so you can get away with a lot more inefficiency than just a few years ago.

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