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by deepsun 767 days ago
Don't see a snark here -- Java libs are really lightweight, in a matter of kilobytes. Because it's interpreted, you're supposed to have OS-specific JVM installed to run it. Exactly the same as Python.

Compare that to Go, where Hello World weighs 1.8 MB, more than 100x heavier than the lib in question.
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huygens6363 767 days ago
Comparing fairly with Go would mean adding the JRE to the lib, because the lib itself is useless. Go produces executables.
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deepsun 766 days ago
Why? If there are 2 adumbra libs, the total size won't change much. But 2 Go hello worlds would take 2x space.

Also, we'd want to include libc.so and even OS kernel that both Go and JVM depend on.

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