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Re:Rust Dependencies Scare Me by andrepd on Friday May 09, 2025 @08:12PM (#43942133)
Dead code elimination means binary size bloat does not follow from dependency bloat. So this point is pretty much invalid for a compiled language like Rust.
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Re:Rust Dependencies Scare Me by hedora on Friday May 09, 2025 @09:51PM (#43942634)
Dead code elimination is exactly the same as the halting problem. It’s approximate (and hopefully conservative!) at best.
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Re:Rust Dependencies Scare Me by kibwen on Saturday May 10, 2025 @08:26AM (#43945084)
No, dead code elimination in a statically-dispatched language is not equivalent to the halting problem.
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