Re: Downwardly Scalable Systems

kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:

D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:

Why do they go backwards? I mean larger binaries must come with some
benefit right?

>
The hello world executable generated with gcc under Oracle Linux 8 is
42Mb long, which is more MASS STORAGE than I had on the first Unix
system I ever used.  I can't see this as being a good thing.

I’m not sure how you managed to make it be 42MB. If I use the official
container imagine it comes out under 20KB.

    [root@4b3cfcf8c484 /]# cat t.c
    #include <stdio.h>

    int main(void) { return printf("Hello, world\n"); }
    [root@4b3cfcf8c484 /]# gcc -O2 -o t t.c
    [root@4b3cfcf8c484 /]# ./t
    Hello, world
    [root@4b3cfcf8c484 /]# ls -l t
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18096 Apr 16 07:27 t

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