[blinkingled]

> We can call this the “dark file usage” of Go binaries, and it occupies between 15% and 33% of the total file size inside CockroachDB.

> Sadly, the removal of pclntab in Go 1.16 actually transferred the payload to the “dark” bytes.

I surely would have expect better from programming language designers/developers than this. Sounds like they just moved the problem from one place to another.

[rob74]

I'll hold my judgement until someone manages to actually find out what this "dark" space is (quote from the article: "At this time, I do not have a satisfying explanation for this “dark” file usage").