Re:Gemini CLI
by MobiusHorizons on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @12:10PM
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It depends a lot on what the executable does. I don’t know the hello world size, but anecdotally I remember seeing several go binaries in the single digit megabyte range. I know the code size is somewhat larger than one might expect because go keeps some type info around for reflection whether you use it or not.
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Re:Gemini CLI
by iainmerrick on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @12:34PM
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Ah, good point. I was just wondering about the fixed overhead of the runtime system -- mainly the garbage collector, I assume.
Re:Gemini CLI
by frollogaston on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @06:27PM
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The Golang runtime is big enough by itself that it makes a real difference from some WASM applications, and people are using Rust instead purely because of that.