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by aflag 1892 days ago
What's the use case where a 200MB binary size is a problem?
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knz42 1892 days ago
The use case where said binary is shipped to GCE instances hundreds/thousands times per day, for stress testing and unit testing of cockroachdb.
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aflag 1892 days ago
If most of the bytes are indeed cruft, can't you just send binary diffs around? I imagine they should change that much between compilations? It seems to be an issue for db developers but not for users.
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