[HN Gopher] Size Optimization Tricks
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Size Optimization Tricks
Author : jart
Score : 25 points
Date : 2022-06-10 12:47 UTC (10 hours ago)
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| HelloNurse wrote:
| Always amazing. Representative quote: > 1.8M
| o/tiny/examples/pyapp/pyapp.com # statically linked python
| app
| pyautogui wrote:
| Wow, that is incredible!
| gary_0 wrote:
| It's a bit depressing that she has to go to such lengths in her
| introduction to justify the goal of lightweight and fast code.
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| I started learning to code on a 25MHz 386, with no hardware
| floating point, clunky disk drives, and a dialup modem. Having to
| wait for _anything_ to happen on a modern system, or suffer with
| any kind of noticeable interactive latency, is just flat-out
| unacceptable to me. Our machines are gods, yet our terrible
| bloated software makes them cry.
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