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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by tormeh on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:31PM (#46516450)
That's a lot of code, though. I can't imagine common libraries so big. The Linux kernel is less than 100mb.
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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by yobbo on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:59PM (#46516853)
That would be the source code. The default debian kernel is around 12 MB but it could be much smaller.

It doesn't bundle full random external libraries compiled with debugging symbols and "whatever other stuff".

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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by lxgr on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:33PM (#46516467)
The neat thing about code is that there's no upper limit on how inefficient one can get.
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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by HPsquared on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @03:34PM (#46518277)
It's literally "work expands to fill the available time" (s/time/cycles and memory/)
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