alt Hacker NewsI always have the unfounded feeling that the go compiler/linker does not remove dead code. Go binaries have large minimal size. Tinygo in contrast can make awesome small binaries
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gethly • today at 9:15 AM
Go has a runtime. That alone is over a megabyte. Tinygo on the other hand has very limited(smaller) runtime. In other words, you don't know what you're talking about.
It's pretty good at dead code elimination. The size of Go binaries is in large part because of the runtime implementation. Remove a bunch of the runtime's features (profiling, stacktraces, sysmon, optimizations that avoid allocations, maybe even multithreading...) and you'll end up with much smaller binaries. I would love if there was a build tag like "runtime_tiny", that provides such an implementation.